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Mariana Atencio is a Peabody award-winning journalist and author, who worked as an anchor for Univision and national correspondent for NBC. She took the world by storm in 2017 when her TEDx talk on authenticity "What makes you special?" went viral. To date, it has over 22 million views and has been translated into 13 languages.
She quickly became one of the most sought-after corporate speakers and has hosted global shows and keynotes with Microsoft, JP Morgan, and the United Nations, among others. She founded "GoLike," a media company named among the 100 most powerful Latina businesses in the U.S.
Originally from Venezuela, Mariana was a part of the student movement for democracy in her home country and came to the United States on a scholarship to study journalism at Columbia University.
She won a Peabody Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editor’s (IRE) award for her work uncovering illegal weapons sold across the border in Mexico; as well as a Gracie Award for directing, writing, and reporting “Pressionados”, a documentary about press freedom in Latin America.
Mariana is a 2021 Henry Crown fellow at the Aspen Institute. Her venture is the American Latino Museum in Washington, D.C., where she is a spokesperson.
If you are into true crime, her latest project is an investigative podcast about two women who go missing on a trail, which tackles femicide in Latin America. It's called "Lost in Panama" and it was among Apple's top 10 podcasts week of release.
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