Uribe graduated from MacMurray College with a degree in biology and physical education in 1993. After an internship at the Saginaw News in Saginaw MI and touring Mexico for four months, Uribe started his first job as a staff photographer at The Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, IL in 1994. Uribe moved to the Santa Fe New Mexican in 1997. There Uribe became interested in the problem of heroin in Northern New Mexico after hearing of the deaths of many young Hispanic men. From that he embarked on a project to document the problem.
Journalism can make a difference.
It can touch people. It can change lives and change the world. My purpose at the seminar is to stress the importance of not just community journalism but the need and benefits of social documentary. When its soup its soup, you can't make chicken salad out of well you know. Be true to the craft and yourself, always trust your instincts.