Patricia Nazario is an accomplished international journalist with 18 awards/honors to her credit. She started in local TV news as a Production Assistant. Her broadcast career spans from the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles and hurricane coverage in Central/South Florida, to Lower Manhattan in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Her outstanding work of Miami’s Cuban community won South Florida’s leading NPR affiliate, WLRN, its first statewide award.

The UCLA alumna freelanced from Buenos Aires during Argentina’s worst-ever social, economic, and political crisis. She’s traveled extensively across South America producing a large body of print and radio work. She’s filed stories ranging from the HIV/AIDS crisis in Colombia and children working on Ecuador’s remote banana plantations (instead of attending school) to American ex-pats thriving in Costa Rica.

Patricia holds a Master of Science degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was in class the morning of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11th, and she spent the next year reporting its devastating effects on families in New York’s East Harlem community.

She was on assignment for the National Public Radio affiliate, KPCC, in Los Angeles, when she realized the food truck revolution was a game-changer and began producing the independent bilingual documentary for theatrical release, Backstreet to the American Dream.

Dolores Huerta, the 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, is the Executive Producer. The documentary explores the modern American Dream and is currently in the festival circuit with the promotional partner, Jarritos.