Paola Ramos is an author and Emmy-Award winning journalist. Ramos is a contributor for Telemundo News and MSNBC, where she is the host of “Field Report.” Ramos is a former Corresponded for Vice News. Her reporting has taken her along the southern border, the Darien Jungle, to embed with Mexican cartels, the Proud Boys or with underground abortion pill networks. Prior to her career in journalism, Ramos was a former Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign, a political appointee during the Obama Administration and also served in President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

She is the author of “DEFECTORS: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and what It Means for America,” and of “Finding Latin-X: In Search of the Voices redefining Latino Identity,” published by Penguin Random House.  Ramos is a former Hauser Leader in the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, where she received her master’s in public policy. She received her B.A. from Barnard College. She is Cuban, Mexican, and American and lives in Brooklyn, New York.