Maritza L. Félix is a JSK Community Impact Fellow at Stanford and an independent journalist in Arizona. She is the founder of Conecta Arizona, a news-you-can-use service in Spanish that connects people in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, primarily through WhatsApp and social media. She is currently a media leader of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She is an International Women’s Media Foundation Adelante and Listening Post Collective Fellow and part of Take the Lead’s 50 Women Who Can Change the World of Journalism 2020 cohort. She is an independent journalist whose work appears in Organización Editorial Mexicana, Fi2W, Slate, The Americano, The Copper Courier, Uniradio, Prensa Arizona Univision and Telemundo. She hosted the documentary “Mysteries of Faith” for Discovery Channel and contributed as producer to “The Wall,” a documentary for Rondo Media. She has worked as special project producer for Al Jazeera and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Félix has won five Emmys and is the recipient of the inaugural award for Best Chronicle Written in the United States by Nuevas Plumas. She also has multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club. In 2012 and 2013 the Phoenix New Times newspaper named Félix Best Spanish-Language Journalist in Arizona.
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Maritza L. Félix es una galardonada periodista independiente, productora y escritora en Arizona. Es la fundadora de Conecta Arizona, un servicio de noticias en español que conecta a las personas en Arizona y Sonora principalmente a través de WhatsApp y las redes sociales. Es coproductora y copresentadpra de Comades al Aire. Es becaria del programa de liderazgo en periodismo de CUNY y de JSK Community Impact Fellowship de Stanford, así como de la Asociación de Escritores de Educación (EWA), Feet in 2 Worlds (Fi2w), “Adelante” de IWMF y de Listening Post Collective; forma parte de las 50 Mujeres que pueden cambiar el mundo del periodismo 2020 de Take The Lead. Félix ha sido nombrada en dos ocasiones como “La mejor periodista en español de Arizona” y como una de las “40 personalidades hispanas menores de 40 años en Arizona”.
