Jesse Bogan is a staff writer with The Marshall Project - St. Louis. Before that, he worked for nearly 15 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he wrote in-depth stories about people and communities on the margins. He previously covered the Southwest for Forbes magazine and the Texas-Mexico border for the San Antonio Express-News. Bogan has a master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Before news reporting, he was a grain trader in Mexico for ADM. He grew up in the Missouri Ozarks and is based in the city of St. Louis.