In 2010 María Hinojosa founded Futuro Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in Harlem, NYC with the mission to create multimedia content from a POC perspective. As Anchor and Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, distributed by PRX, and Co-Host of Futuro Media’s award-winning political podcast In The Thick, and most recently her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Suave, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. Today she seeks to challenge newsrooms across the world with her new Latina lead Investigative Journalism unit.

Maria Hinojosa dreamt of a space where she could create independent, multimedia journalism that explores and gives a critical voice to the diverse American experience. She made that dream a reality in 2010 when she created Futuro Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in Harlem, NYC with the mission to create multimedia content from a POC perspective. As Anchor and Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, distributed by PRX, and Co-Host of Futuro Media’s award-winning political podcast In The Thick, and most recently her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Suave, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad.

Cuban-Mexican Emmy-award-winning, multimedia investigative journalist, columnist, and author. She is the Executive Producer of Futuro Investigates, Latino USA and Special Projects at Futuro Media. She also writes a weekly column for the Mexican media group Reforma. Before joining Futuro, she worked as an investigative correspondent for Univision. Her reporting has led to several official investigations of politicians and business people in Latin America and the United States.

She has been part of global investigative projects, such as the Pulitzer award-winning “Panama Papers” and the Scripps Howard award-winning “Pandora Papers,” with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. After six nominations since 2016, Ramírez was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish in 2022, for revealing a system of sexual abuses against members of megachurch La Luz del Mundo. She was also awarded a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Spanish-language investigative reporting.

In 2021, she was awarded a Scripps Howard Foundation’s Jack R. Howard Fellowship in International Journalism and a Carlos M. Castaneda Journalism Scholarship to study at Columbia University, where she graduated with a Master of Arts in Business and Economics Journalism. She is passionate about mentoring investigative journalists and empowering women and people of color in journalism.

A bilingual journalist with more than 20 years in the field, Andrea joined Latino USA as Editor in the fall of 2020. Soon after, she was promoted to Senior Editor and, most recently, to Supervising Senior Editor for Latino USA and Futuro Investigates.

Before joining Futuro Media, Andrea spent over a decade at Dow Jones, where she worked as an editor for The Wall Street Journal Americas division. For several years, she was also the New York-area correspondent for El Comercio, her native Peru’s leading daily newspaper. After a one-year stint as a copy editor for Bloomberg News’ Spanish-language service, she entered the world of podcasts. She was Radio Ambulante’s fact-checker for over two years and for Radio Ambulante Studios’ news-oriented podcast El Hilo. Andrea is also a former adjunct at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY where she taught research to the bilingual class for three consecutive years.

Today, Andrea combines her duties at Futuro with frequent fact-checking gigs in her spare time for different media outlets and podcasts, including This American Life, The New York Times, and Vox Media.

Julieta Martinelli is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and a Senior Producer at Futuro Media where she reports on injustice, immigration, and the criminal legal system for Latino USA, Futuro Studios and Futuro Investigates. She reported and co-produced Suave, a narrative podcast series about juvenile life without parole which was recognized by the International Documentary Association as 2021’s best audio documentary series. Suave was the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting.

As Soros Justice Media Fellow, she spent over a year traveling alone in big and small border towns collecting stories of asylum seekers stuck in Mexican shelters, documenting the human repercussions of changing legal policies along the U.S.- Mexico border. She previously covered the criminal legal system, policing, and immigration for Nashville Public Radio. Among other awards, her work was recognized with a regional Murrow and by the TN Associated Press three years in a row with first place awards in investigative reporting (audio). Her reporting helped lead to the release from prison of two incarcerated men in two separate cases, one of which had spent nearly two decades wrongfully convicted.

Her stories about immigrant youth, life in prison —and what happens after— have aired nationally on NPR programs including Here and Now, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered, and her original reporting has been discussed in WAMU’s 1A, the BBC, NBC and other national news outlets. She spent the first part of her career covering immigration, laws, culture, and music for Spanish-language print publications in Georgia.

Nour Saudi is a lead producer at Futuro Investigates, Futuro Media’s investigative unit and Latino USA. Most recently she led and oversaw production on the Radical Imagination podcast for PolicyLink and was lead producer at In The Thick, Futuro’s weekly politics podcast. She is an alumna from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She envisions a just and equitable media industry as one that goes beyond representation, and actively and unequivocally calls out the harmful policies being enacted against historically marginalized communities.

Nancy is a world traveler, a New Yorker, Latina, Mexican-American. After graduating from Barnard College, Nancy began working at Futuro Media Group as Maria’s assistant. She took time to travel the world and worked with young adults doing service based projects. Nancy is back at Futuro and excited to be part of Futuro Unidad Hinojosa. One of her favorite countries is Mongolia, she loves chocolate chip cookies, animals, and her bike. Nancy is passionate about social justice and making this world a better place.