User:Paul.Cuadros

Paul Cuadros's family emigrated to the United States in 1960 from Peru. An award-winning investigative reporter, he has written for Time magazine and Salon.com, among others. In 1999 Cuadros won an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship to write about the impact of the large numbers of Latino poultry workers in rural towns in the South. He moved to Pittsboro, North Carolina, to conduct his research and stayed on to document the growing Latino community in the Southeast. He soon became ingrained into the community and was successful at creating a soccer program for Jordan Mathews High School, coaching both boys and girls varsity soccer teams. In three short years Paul brought fame to Jordan-Mathews High School by coaching their boys soccer team, The Jets, to a State Championship win in NCHSAA Division 2-A. This was historic, as it was the first time in North Carolina history a largely Hispanic team won any state-wide sports championship. Paul wrote a book about that experience and the community called "A Home On the Field" or "Un juego sin fronteras", which has been required reading for some UNC courses.

Paul is currently a Journalistic Professor at UNC and remains active as a Coach and player in the Siler City/Pittsboro area, especially as an advocate for the emerging Latino community in eastern Chatham County. He has an active interest in the progressive development of Pittsboro as a cultural and artistic center.