Ana Arana is a US investigative journalist and director of the Fundacion MEPI, an independent journalism project based at the Tecnologico de Monterry in Mexico City. MEPI promotes binational and regional investigations. Arana is a former Knight International Journalism Fellow in Mexico, where she trained investigative units at various news outlets. One of her investigative teams at the daily El Universal won Mexico's National Press Award in 2008. Arana's work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Salon, the Columbia Journalism Review, the New York Daily News, Business Week, the Village Voice, the Miami Herald, and CBS News. She is a former reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and was a foreign correspondent for the Miami Herald in Central America and Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s. She is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and San Francisco State University.
