Mariana Atencio: What makes you special?
When journalist Mariana Atencio was seven, her father sent her from her home in Venezuela to a summer camp in Brainerd, Minnesota. Unsurprisingly, she was treated like an outsider. Over the course of many more such camps and a senior year in an American high school, she discovered that the best way to belong was to embrace the qualities that mad...
Mariana Atencio: Rethinking storytelling to help people care | Mariana Atencio | TEDxUniversityofNevada
NBC News journalist Mariana Atencio covered three hurricanes, one earthquake and the worst mass shooting at a church in America in less than three months. She traveled to Mexico, Puerto Rico and Texas, raising her voice for thousands of victims. But it was the crisis in her country or origin, Venezuela, that really hit home. In this talk, Marian...
Mariana Atencio: Music Performance