Fernanda Santos Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

I employ my multimedia, multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-functional talents and skills into the many things I do: writing; leadership; training on writing and leadership; consulting to media, nonprofit and trade organizations on storytelling and internal and external communication strategies. I work with authors to help them develop ideas for.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• My experience as a professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has primed me to coach students and professionals in the conception and development of narrative stories for.
• Managed 10 teams of students in five years of teaching.
• Guided students as they conceived, reported on and wrote/produced narrative and investigative digital stories, TV packages and podcasts.
• Taught a series of workshops on narrative writing strategies to mid-career science journalists participating in a fellowship program offered by the Cronkite School and Mayo Clinic.
• Currently teaching a group of international journalists from 11 different countries who are spending an academic year at the Cronkite School as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship.

New York, United States

• During my time in the Southwest, I wrote periodical columns about the intersection of immigration, politics and public policy.
• Winner of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for General Excellent in Column Writing, 2022.

New York, United States

• I ran the talented teams behind Latino USA, In The Thick podcast and Latino Rebels. I resigned on Aug. 25, 2023 in hopes to save jobs during a devastating round of layoffs at Futuro Media.Some highlights from my year.
• I advocated — and won — pay parity among producers and editors.
• I created a supervisory role that optimized the sharing of resources between Futuro’s flagship property, Latino USA, and its award-winning investigative unit.
• I developed and supervised a plan for the year-long series of shows commemorating the 30 years of Latino USA, securing a partnership that guaranteed the company’s access to archival audio free of cost.
• I empowered Latino USA producers to anchor the shows they produced while pushing them to embrace bolder ideas that speak to some of the most challenging issues of our times, such as gun violence, economic opportunity.
• I steered the revamping of In The Thick into a weekly political podcast, shaping its roundtable segment around a single topic to offer listeners more impactful conversations.

New World Stages, Off Broadway, New York

• I co-wrote a musical based on the life of an undocumented immigrant who played a key role in the political transformation of Arizona. My purpose was to present a topic that I reported on extensively and care about.
• Winner of the Gilberto Zaldívar HOLA Award for Outstanding Production (2022), given by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors.

I am a groundbreaker and visionary. I was the first Brazilian hired as a staff writer at The New York Times, where I covered the world within New York and the U.S.-Mexico border beyond the strident political debates that define it. I let my unique perspective and cultural competency guide my storytelling. One of my editors said, by way of praising me, that.

Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan, published my first book, "The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots," winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book.

Bogotá, Colombia

During my fellowship, I reported on the reasons behind a 50-percent decline on the rate of violent crimes in Bogotá, Colombia.

New York, New York

Lawrence, Massachusetts

I covered breaking news and crime in the City of Lawrence, the first majority-minority city in New England.

Master Of Science (Ms), Print Journalism

M.S. in Print Journalism

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Social Communications

Bachelor's in sociology and social communications