Stephania Taladrid is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She also teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Taladrid has reported from the United States, Latin America, and Spain, writing about the legacy of the Franco dictatorship, Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis, and Latino communities across the U.S.

Last year, she reported and produced “American Scar,” a short documentary on the environmental implications of the border wall, which received a special mention from the jury at the film festival DOC NYC. In 2022, she won an American Society of Magazine Editors Next Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by journalists under the age of thirty.

Taladrid grew up in Mexico, the United States, Spain, and France, and earned a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the magazine, she was a political speechwriter.