Mariana Santos

Knight Innovator in Residence | School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Mariana Santos is the founder of Chicas Poderosas, a digital training community that introduces more women journalists to technology in media. She is also the Director of Interactive and Animation at Fusion and a recent graduate from the JSK Knight Fellow at Stanford (2015) and a Knight International Journalism Fellow (2013-14), where she worked all across Latin America in major newsrooms and with independent journalists.

Santos is a visual storyteller, who did groundbreaking work as a member of the interactive team at The Guardian in London. A trained animator, she pioneered the newsroom’s use of motion graphics to make data stories more compelling. She leads design thinking workshops to increase multidisciplinary approach to storytelling, and she is a leader in community transformation via digital training.