Aitana Vargas is a Columbia University graduate and an award-winning foreign correspondent passionate about investigative journalism and social justice issues.
In 2013, her two-part investigative series exposing abusive working conditions in the entertainment industry was nominated for the Pulitzer of the Young (Livingston Award) and obtained first place for Best Investigative Series at the Socal Journalism Awards, hosted by the LA Press Club. The series was produced and written entirely by her.
She's also been named "Sports Journalist of the Year" by the LA Press Club for her work as a play-by-play tennis commentator and human-angle sports stories and has received countless nominations and awards for best story in various categories including Hard News, Sports News, Online Hard News Coverage, Entertainment News and Obituary.
Her most recent awards include a feature piece on her grandmother's decades-long struggle as one of the Franco-era victims (https://aitanavargas.com/memoria-historica/entre-bordados-y-alfileres/) and "A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime" (2022).
Visit her website at https://aitanavargas.com.
Read about Vargas's grandmother's story, Ascensión Mendieta: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/world/europe/ascension-mendieta-dies.html
