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Marcela Gaviria

Marcela Gaviria is a journalist and filmmaker with Rain Media in New York City. Over the past two decades she has produced over 50 hours of programming for FRONTLINE (PBS), covering the rise of Al Qaeda, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the culture of risk taking on Wall Street, America’s heroin epidemic, and the crackdown on undocumented immigrants under the Trump Administration.

Gaviria has earned every award in broadcast journalism multiple times, including seven Emmys, three Peabody’s, two Dupont Columbia Gold batons and two silver batons, four Writers Guild Awards, three Overseas Press Club Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the...

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