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“One of the more delicate feats of great journalism is knowing how to be intensely present yet invisible. Stephania Taladrid has an extraordinary talent for releasing the storyteller in those she interviews; writing from the still eye of spiraling controversy or upheaval, she finds and protects the unforgettably human. Whether at an abortion clinic on the day Roe v. Wade is overturned or standing witness to the pain of Uvalde’s stricken parents, Taladrid draws out what otherwise would remain hidden.”
- Whiting Awards Citation
About
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Stephania Taladrid is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where she covers Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. She has written about Presidential elections, mass shootings, and notorious human-rights cases, among other topics. Her Profile subjects have included the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Venezuelan Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado.
For her reporting on the fall of Roe v. Wade, Taladrid was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won a Whiting Award in nonfiction, and was recognized as a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest.
In 2022, Taladrid reported and produced "American Scar," a short documentary on Donald Trump's border wall, which screened at Hot Docs, Big Sky, and other film festivals. She grew up in Mexico, the United States, Spain, and France, and earned a master's degree in Latin American studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Taladrid has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining the magazine, she was a political speechwriter.
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As long as our stories and voices continue to be written out of textbooks, omitted in film, TV, and print, and minimized in the halls of power, people will continue to see Latinos as something other than inherently American.
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“An empathetic, intrepid reporter, who produces deeply nuanced work. Her stories about socioeconomics and border policy center on people who are often marginalized or overlooked in the political debate.”
Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
A Panel on the Changing Landscape on the News
06/09/2023
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Reporting on Latinos: A Two-Day Symposium
05/05-06/2023
Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY
A Reading by the 2023 Whiting Award Winners
03/30/2023
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Keynote Address at the Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies Symposium
03/28/2023
PEN, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
A Conversation with Award-Winning Photographer Alejandro Cegarra on the State of the Immigration Debate
03/02/2023
Sky Island Alliance, Tucson, AZ
American Scar Virtual Screening
05/04/2022
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, MT
Presentation of American Scar and Q&A with Filmmakers
02/23-24/2022
SVA Theatre, New York, NY
Van Alen Sessions: Premiere Screening of Borderlands
11/07/2019
Instituto Cervantes, New York, NY
A Conversation with Aaron Shulman, Author of “The Age of Disenchantments”
04/16/2019