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Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafia, polished Chinese propaganda, and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoirs Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines; Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; and the best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Latina Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Poets & Writers. As a National Correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across America in a Honda Hatchback named Bertha. She has also been a Henry Luce Scholar to Asia, a Hodder Fellow to Princeton University, and the winner of a Richard Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize.