Tifani Roberts has been a journalist for more than 30 years and her entire career has been focused on Latin America. She began her career in Nicaragua, the country where she grew up, back in the 1980’s when the region was engulfed in a deadly war. Since 1998 she has worked with Univision Network, first as a news correspondent in Central America and later as an in-depth journalist for the network’s news magazine show based in Miami, Florida. She has travelled to every country in the Western Hemisphere telling stories on every topic imaginable. In the process she has won four National Emmy Awards (two of them for investigative work), a Peabody and an IRE Award among other recognitions for her work. She describes herself as a bicultural and binational woman – She says she was born in Philadelphia, but her heart belongs to Nicaragua.