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Maria Luisa Tucker (born August 20, 1979) is an American journalist. She currently resides in New York City and is an editor at Youth Communication. She was formerly a staff writer at The Village Voice. [1]
Tucker graduated with honors from Texas State University - San Marcos in 2000 with a B.A. in journalism. In 2006, she received an M.A. in American Studies from Columbia University. [2]
Tucker started her journalism career while still at Texas State University, writing for The University Star, [3] and was published in the Pulitzer-prize winning Fort Wayne News Sentinel. [4] Since then, she has written for the Phoenix New Times, [5] The Press-Enterprise, and Austin Monthly Magazine. [2] By 2002, Tucker was a staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter and remained there until her move to New York City.
While working towards her M.A., Tucker was an associate editor at the Columbia Journal of American Studies. [2] Upon graduation in 2005, she was hired by AlterNet, where she stayed until late spring of 2006. Her contributions to the website included stories on immigration and social justice. [6]
Tucker's first freelance article for The Village Voice appeared in July 2006. [7] She then joined the staff in 2007 and has since written about a white supremacist group visiting New York City, [8] rezoning battles in the Lower East Side [9] and Harlem, [10] as well as providing in-depth coverage of the Brigitte Harris trial. [11] [12] [13]
Tucker has won two awards during her employment at the Santa Fe Reporter. New Mexico Press Association awarded her 1st place in the "Investigative Reporting" category in 2002. [14] The following year, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies awarded her 1st place in the "Media Reporting" category in 2003. [15]
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Dallas Observer is a free digital and print publication based in Dallas, Texas. The Observer publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music, and arts, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circulates every Thursday. The Observer has been owned by Voice Media Group since January 2013.
Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez is an American actress and writer. She is known for her television roles as Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom George Lopez, Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS period drama Vegas, Jamie Batista on the Showtime drama Dexter and Ella Lopez on the Fox/Netflix drama Lucifer.
Alisa Valdes is an American author, journalist, and film producer, known for her bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club.
Luisa María de Guadalupe Calderón Hinojosa is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party who served in the Senate of Mexico from 2000 until September 2006. She is currently senator-elect as a PAN proportional representative. Her term in the senate began in late 2012 and will continue through 2018. "Cocoa" is known as a champion for women and minority rights throughout Mexico.
Donna K. Ladd is an American investigative journalist who co-founded the Jackson Free Press, a community magazine, and later, the Mississippi Free Press, an online news publication that emphasizes solutions journalism where Ladd currently serves as editor. She is noted for highlighting the historical and continuing role of race in current events, for investigative reporting that helped convict klansman James Ford Seale for his role in the 1964 civil rights kidnappings and deaths of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, and for her coverage of Frank Melton, the controversial mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
Erik Wemple is an American journalist who works as a columnist and media critic at The Washington Post. He was formerly the editor of the alternative weekly Washington City Paper.
Patricia Lynn Racette is an American operatic soprano. A winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 1998, she has been a regular presence at major opera houses internationally. Racette has enjoyed long-term partnerships with the San Francisco Opera, where she has been a regular performer since 1989, and with the Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed since 1995. Also active on the concert stage, Racette has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She also received the award for Best Opera Recording for her performance in the Los Angeles Opera's production of The Ghosts of Versailles at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
Boulder Weekly is an alternative newsweekly that publishes every Thursday in Boulder, Colorado. The paper is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) and is owned and published by Stewart Sallo.
Jessica Rivera is an American soprano of Peruvian-American ancestry.
The Santa Fe Reporter (SFR) is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Santa Fe, New Mexico. First published in 1974, the Santa Fe Reporter features reports on local news, politics, art and culture, and is published once a week on Wednesdays. Since 1997, the Reporter has been owned and published by Portland, Oregon-based City of Roses Newspaper Company, which also publishes Willamette Week and Indy Week. Since September 2016, the paper's publisher & editor has been Julie Ann Grimm, with Anna Maggiore serving as associate publisher & advertising director. Julie Ann Grimm had previously been editor of the paper since August 2013. Alex De Vore has been covering music, arts and culture for the Reporter since 2008, and became culture editor in 2016. The Reporter celebrated its 40th anniversary in June 2014.
María Benítez is an American dancer, choreographer and director in Spanish dance and flamenco. Born of a mother of Chippewa, Algonquian, Oneida and Iroquois parentage and a Puerto Rican father, Benítez is best known for the work of the company she and her husband Cecilio founded and direct, Teatro Flamenco.
Mary Jane M. Garcia is a former Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate. She represented the 36th District from 1988 to 2012.
Luisa Piccarreta, now a Servant of God and also known as the "Little Daughter of the Divine Will", was a Catholic mystic and author whose spirituality centred on union with the Will of God.
Mark Zusman is the editor and publisher of Willamette Week, an alternative newspaper and media company based in Portland, Oregon. He has been the paper's editor since 1983, and became its publisher in 2015, when Richard Meeker stepped down from that position.
The Coalition to Save Harlem (CSH) is a campaign organization whose aim is to reclaim, preserve and protect the local community of the Harlem, New York City. Members of the organization include residents, business owners, community-based organizations, artists, activists and civic groups.
Yvonne Latty is an American journalist, author, filmmaker and professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She has traveled the country to speak on subjects including race to writing, and is also a Leeway Foundation Fellow.
María Luisa Piraquive, Maria Luisa Piraquive Corredor, is a Colombian educator with a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Philology and a Doctorate in International Law. She is a singer, philanthropist, and leader of a Christian church with a world-wide presence that she co-founded, the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International. Additionally, she is founder and president of a not-for-profit organization, Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation, which offers a broad range of social assistance services, and pioneer of the Colombian political party, MIRA.
Maui Time Weekly is a free alternative newspaper published weekly in the county of Maui, state of Hawaii. The paper is owned mostly by its publisher, Tommy Russo.
John Mecklin is a journalist, novelist and editor, who specializes in narrative journalism. He was the editor-in-chief of Miller-McCune, a national public policy magazine named after its founder, Sara Miller McCune. Mecklin is currently the editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
