Mariana Atencio is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and author who took the world by storm in 2017 when her TEDx talk on authenticity, "What makes YOU special?" went viral. To date, it has +24 million views and has been translated into 13 languages.As a thought leader and viral speaker, she is now on a mission to help individuals, executives, and organizations navigate change by embracing authentic leadership. She has been hired by Microsoft, JP Morgan, Ford, Spotify, Citi Private Bank and the United Nations, just to name a few. Her book "Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real" was an Amazon Best Seller and was selected by Audible and AppleBooks.In the last decade, Mariana worked at Univision and NBC News as an anchor and national correspondent, covering devastation and protests in places like China, the Syrian border, Haiti, and chasing cartels in Mexico. She has interviewed the President, the Pope, the King of Spain, among others. In 2020, she founded "GoLike Media," a female-led media content house, named among the 100 most powerful Latina businesses in the U.S. She now divides her time between her speaking career and original journalism projects. The through-line is always authentic storytelling.Her latest investigative show is a true crime podcast about two women who go missing on a trail, for which she spent a month living in the jungle at the scene of the crime. It's called "Lost in Panama", and it was among Apple's top 10 podcasts week of release.Mariana is featured in the award-winning HBO series "Habla Now" as one of the voices defining the Latino experience in America. Her work has been honored with a Peabody, a Gracie Award, Columbia University’s “First Decade Award” and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Presidential Award. She is a spokesperson for the American Latino Museum in Washington, D.C., and a 2021 Henry Crown fellow at the Aspen Institute.