1. Mariana Atencio was born on April 2,1984 and is an American journalist, television host, author and speaker who was formerly a correspondent for NBC News.
22 Facts About Mariana Atencio
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Mariana del Carmen Atencio Cervoni was born in Caracas, Venezuela to Alvaro Atencio and Diana Cervoni.
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Mariana Atencio has a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas.
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Mariana Atencio has worked as an anchor for the Vme-TV network, the only Hispanic public service television station in the United States.
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Mariana Atencio began working as a guest anchor and correspondent for Univision News in 2011.
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Mariana Atencio covered the 2012 presidential election for the network's morning program Despierta America and its evening newscast Noticiero Univision.
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Mariana Atencio was one of five reporters who worked on the Peabody Award winning documentary Rapido y Furioso for which they received an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.
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Mariana Atencio served as a reporter for the network's Investigative Unit.
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In 2014, Mariana Atencio received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her work on the Univision documentary, "Pressured: Freedom of the Press," which she reported on and wrote.
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Mariana Atencio became an anchor for the network's The Morning Show, a two-hour program featuring a mix of news, feature stories and live interviews.
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Mariana Atencio anchored The Morning Show on Fusion TV channel until its cancellation in 2014.
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Mariana Atencio led the network's on-the-ground coverage of the 2014 protests in Venezuela from where she contributed to ABC News.
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Mariana Atencio has covered the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong, and the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, where 43 students went missing in Mexico.
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Mariana Atencio interacted with Pope Francis and translated on live television for recent immigrants who wanted to ask the pope questions.
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Mariana Atencio made the crossover from Spanish to English-language network news in September 2016 when she became a correspondent for NBC.
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Mariana Atencio was the only Latina correspondent on the cable network.
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Mariana Atencio specialized in covering the US Latino community and immigration, and doing live on-air translations from Spanish.
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Mariana Atencio reported on notable stories such as the Central American migrant caravans, the child separation crisis at the border and the ICE raids across several Mississippi chicken plants that led to the arrest of 680 undocumented immigrants.
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Mariana Atencio covered major natural disasters including the earthquake in Mexico, as well as the aftermath of Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, Florence, Michael, and Dorian.
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Mariana Atencio was a 2021 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
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Mariana Atencio's father died in February 2018 due to complications from pneumonia after contracting the flu.
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Mariana Atencio chronicled his health crisis in the hospital in Caracas and the lack of basic medical supplies in Venezuela as a result of the humanitarian crisis.