Aitana Vargas is a Columbia University graduate and an award-winning on-camera news reporter, foreign correspondent, and live tennis commentator based in Los Angeles. She began her career anchoring a local Spanish-language TV show while obtaining her BS in physics from Berry College and then interned at the BBC, CNN International, and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Communications Department in Germany. Her master’s thesis at Columbia University on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was supervised by Professor Rashid Khalidi. Her stories have appeared on Palabra, Público, EFE, CNN Expansión, Narratively, Hoy Los Ángeles, the Los Angeles Times, DirecTV Sports, TVE Internacional, Cuatro/Telecinco TV Network, HITN TV Network, and others. Vargas has received several LA Press Club awards (Investigative Series, Sports Journalist of the Year, Obituary, Consumer, Sports & Hard News) and the 2018 Berry College Outstanding Young Alumni Award. She is a Livingston Award finalist and a 2023 finalist of Floodlight, an initiative between Fundación Gabo and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.