My paper examines collaborative efforts between U.S., Mexican and Central American journalists, human rights activists, and academics jointly investigating abuses against Central American asylum-seekers in the United States. The U.S.-Mexico border marks a geopolitical and symbolic boundary between the Global North and the Global South. My work develops a novel transdisciplinary approach on collaborative investigative journalism by examining how journalists, activists, and academics across fields from both sides of the North-South border can jointly investigate and expose concealed crimes committed by powerful actors in the North against vulnerable populations from the South. Jennifer Harbury’s book Bridge of Courage described how Guatemalans resisted their country’s death squads backed by the CIA in the Cold War. My paper shows how a bridge of courage increasingly extends into the U.S. side, with American journalists reaching beyond their profession and home region to work with Central American activists and academics to hold abusers accountable, despite death threats against investigators across the region. My paper also elaborates on the transdisciplinary identity of investigative journalists, whose work at the intersections between the journalistic media, academia, and activism allows them to cover complex topics and expose the root causes of Central American migration to the public.