Alma Guillermoprieto

Ms. Alma Guillermoprieto is an independent journalist who has contributed to the works of The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and NewsWeek. Since 1995, she has conducted the first workshop of the year at the Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano in Colombia, which she cofounded. Her articles and books are concerned with Latin American politics and culture. Most recently, she published a searching series of articles on Colombia in The New York Review of Books. Her work on Cuba is most important in its discussion of the United States' colonial and post-colonial relations - diplomatically, economically, culturally - with our near neighbor. Ms. Guillermoprieto has held reports on El Mozote Massacre, Colombian Civil War, "Dirty War" in Argentina, and post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Her first book, Samba, was a work of investigative reporting about the celebratory carnival culture of the impoverished favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Some of her accomplishments include being a MacArthur Fellow and Alicia Patterson Fellow, while also receiving the George Polk Award and Latin American Studies Association Media Award.