Veronica Zaragovia

I was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in South Florida. I received my bachelor’s degree in political science and a master's degree in journalism, and after that spent many years living out of a suitcase (or two) in New York City, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, D.C., San Antonio and Austin, where I worked as the statehouse and health care reporter at NPR member station KUT. In 2016, I received a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship and moved to Germany’s capital city of Berlin where I remained for several years, working as a freelance reporter and radio instructor to American college students at the Center for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). In between that time, I also spent six months in Colombia, reporting on the peace treaty between the Colombian government and the former FARC guerrilla group, with the support of a grant from the Pulitzer Center. I speak English and Spanish fluently and can converse in French, German and Hebrew. And I'm very happy reporting on health care, Surfside and other topics at WLRN in South Florida.