Patricia Nazario

Patricia Nazario is an accomplished international journalist with 18 awards/honors to her credit. Her career spans from the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles and hurricane coverage in Central/South Florida, to lower Manhattan in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Her outstanding work of Miami's Cuban community won South Florida's leading NPR affiliate, WLRN, prestigious statewide recognition. The UCLA alumna freelanced from Buenos Aires during Argentina's worst-ever social, economic, and political crisis. She's traveled extensively across South America producing a large body of print and radio work. She's filed stories ranging from the HIV/AIDS crisis in Colombia and children working on Ecuador's remote banana plantations (instead of attending school), to American ex-pats thriving in Costa Rica. Patricia holds a Master of Science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2010, she was on assignment for the National Public Radio affiliate KPCC, in Los Angeles, when she realized the food truck revolution was a big deal that deserved complete coverage. She began producing the independent documentary for theatrical release, Backstreet to the American Dream.