Natalie Schachar is a former regional editor 
for Latin America and the Caribbean for The Associated Press. 

She has written cover stories, features and news for The Washington Post Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and Rolling Stone, among many other publications. 

She has also served as an editor for National Public Radio and on-air host for affiliate station KBSU 90.3.

Over more than a decade, she reported hundreds of stories from around the U.S. and Latin America about elections, wildfires, mass shootings, kidnappings, Supreme Court rulings, protests, politics and bears.

Her favorite pieces include ones about a Holocaust memorial in Buenos Aires which took 15 years to build, drug-fueled music festivals in Mexico which carry on despite cartel violence, the search for a lost Frida Kahlo painting, an ode to author Barbara Ehrenreich, and a ski mountaineering quest to summit and descend Wyoming’s Grand Teton. 

In 2023, her work was included in The New York Times collection titled “Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World.”

She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. 

A licensed investigator, she currently lives with her husband and son in the Pacific Northwest after spending the better part of a decade based in Mexico and Argentina.