Mariana Palau

Credentials: Spring 2020

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Mariana Palau

Summary of Madison Activities

Pulitzer Center grantee Mariana Palau visited UW-Madison in Spring 2020 to discuss her reporting in Colombia. Mariana’s presentation, “Colombia After the Conflict,” explored the long term success of the Colombian Peace Deal with over 30 students. The Center for Journalism Ethics conducted an interview with Mariana during her time at UW-Madison, which you can read here.

Mariana’s Biography

Mariana Palau is a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota. She writes for The Economist and has been published in Al Jazeera and The Village Voice. From Colombia, she has covered subjects like the 2018 congressional and presidential elections, as well as the Colombian government’s strategies against cocaine production. Mariana is a graduate of Columbia University’s Journalism School.