Peniley Ramírez

Peniley Ramírez is an Emmy and IRE-award-winning investigative journalist and author. She serves as CO-CEO and Executive Director of Futuro Media, leading News and Investigations, Latino USA, and Futuro Investigates. She writes a weekly column in Mexico for Reforma. Before that, she worked as an investigative correspondent for Univision. She wrote an acclaimed book about dirty money in the war on drugs. Her reporting has led to official investigations of politicians and business people in the U.S. and Latin America. She was awarded an Emmy and a Sigma Delta Chi Award. Under her leadership, Futuro has won the Investigative Reporters and Editors, Imagen, and Nonprofit News awards and was nominated for a Peabody. She has a Master of Arts in Business and Economics Journalism from Columbia University.