Breckenridge, Colorado

Rita Neubauer began her journalism career in Germany at the regional newspaper Heilbronner Stimme. A strong curiosity about different cultures and challenging environments led her to Central America in 1986, where she covered the civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Later, she reported for the Frankfurter Rundschau from Mexico about the Indian uprising in Chiapas and about numerous financial, social, and political conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Cuba and Haiti. In 1999 she received a John S. Knight Fellowship to attend Stanford University. She then covered business news in Silicon Valley and the social impact of the bust of the Internet bubble, and contributed to a Spanish-language website for IT news. Today she works as an independent feature writer. She is the author of two books, one about child trafficking in Central America and the other about Mexico.

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