Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafia, polished Chinese propaganda and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoirs Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines; Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; and the guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. As a National Correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across America in a Honda Hatchback named Bertha. She has won a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton, a Richard Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. Visit her website at Around the Bloc.