Anchor & News Correspondent

I have been a journalist for the last 13 years. Starting at a very young age, I knew I wanted to be a journalist. The awareness of social issues and human interest stories drew me to study Communications and to specialize in journalism. Though my focus was on my home country, I wanted to get an international perspective on the news coming out of Mexico and Latin America. This is why I took a semester in journalism in Buenos Aires, and later on, in Vienna, I studied a specialization in “Media Literacy” organized by the University of Texas. I started in print journalism first at “El Universal” and then “Reforma” newspaper. In 2012, I was the State of Mexico’s correspondent for this National newspaper, covering the narco war in a region where it had deep roots.

My experience covering the sudden upsurge in violence throughout the state convinced me that I needed to gain a deeper understanding of the social issues underlying this phenomenon. So, I enrolled for a Masters in Journalism and Public Affairs at the Economic Institute known as “CIDE” in Mexico, where these issues were given serious consideration in the work done by a renowned group of international scholars and media experts. For my thesis, I researched how foreign media covered the transition in the Federal Government from one-party rule to the democratically elected center-right party.

Since graduating in 2014, I have been working for International Media and foreign channels. I started as a news producer for international crews. First at the Chinese channel, China Global Television Networks (CGTN), where I coordinated crews from the U.S., Europe and China, digging up stories, getting exclusive content and filing interviews. I also translated interviews from Spanish to English and was in charge of providing regional and country-wide background information about Mexico that foreign reporters used in their live hits and packages.

In 2015 the Turkish channel, TRT World, picked me up as a news correspondent in Mexico, where I worked for almost five years, covering major issues and breaking news such as Ovidio Guzman’s capture, migrant caravan routes through Mexico, bilateral relations between Lopez Obrador’s administration and Donald Trump’s government, among others. I also became the National Correspondent for FusionTV, an English-language subsidiary of Univision, where I developed long form pieces and reported several stories on the climate crisis and violence against journalists in Mexico.

After this experience, I was drawn to anchoring, I found an opportunity to develop my abilities at the studio at the Mexican channel El Financiero, which operates as a partner with Bloomberg TV. I anchored a news show for a couple of years, where I conducted live interviews and anchored special shows with International relevance such as the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

This experience gave me a deeper appreciation of audience engagement, team effort in creating a thematic narrative for the hour, creative impulse and careful attention to segways to keep the audience’s attention throughout the hour.

In 2021, Telemundo offered me a position as a News Correspondent for the National Newscast and NBC News, which I accepted. Since then, I have developed in-depth reports such as a recent investigation on the Maya Train, exclusive content such as the access to legal documents to which I had gained exclusive access. These were related to the death of 40 migrants in Ciudad Juarez, where I also covered the lifting of Title 42. Most recently, I covered the historic solar eclipse, for Lester Holt at NBC and also for local stations of Telemundo, as well as Mexico’s Presidential Election.

Journalism has been and remains my driving passion. I have many more ideas that I want to develop: from covering the news from different platforms, to prioritizing digital content, importance of focusing on the most pressing issues in the region in the upcoming era. As a former producer for an international channel, I know how essential it is to have a deep understanding of the region being covered, ideally by someone who was born and raised there.

As a native of Mexico City, I feel I can provide the necessary context of stories in a relevant and exciting way. Moreover, my command of English allows me to share this understanding of the region and its actors with a broader audience that perhaps has not been able to get as clear a picture of Latin America as they need.

I am honored for this great opportunity to continue developing my career as a journalist and to meet the challenges it will present with passion and excitement.