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Mariana Van Zeller

Executive Producer and Host of "Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller"
National Geographic

Peabody and DuPont Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller is on a mission to unearth the geopolitical circumstances and context that create the multitrillion-dollar black market economy. Her National Geographic series TRAFFICKED explores complex and often dangerous inner workings of the global black market underworld. Mariana shares the process of digging into a story and provides a 360-degree view of the trafficking world.
Mariana began her journalism career in her native Portugal and moved to the US to attend Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she met her husband and producing partner Darren Foster. They live in Los Angeles with their son Vasco. Mariana is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and French.

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Events featuring Mariana Van Zeller
Events featuring Mariana Van Zeller