Education Program Manager
Documented
María Arce is a media leader with extensive experience in engagement journalism and reporting with communities in the aftermath of natural disasters. She works at Documented as the Program Manager for its Education initiatives, training newsrooms across the country to serve immigrant and other communities through community-driven journalism practices. She worked as an Engagement Journalism Trainer for America Amplified, supporting public media stations in serving Hispanic and Black communities. She has created guides and toolkits for newsrooms, including resources on onboarding interns into engagement journalism, tipsheets on organizing engagement initiatives for immigrant communities, and written guidelines on reaching young, rural, Hispanic, Black, and Immigrant communities, among others. She served as the Editorial Coach for Latam at Global Press, the Multiplatform Director of El Vocero de Puerto Rico, the Deputy Digital Director at GFR Media, and the Digital News Director at Univision, among other media outlets. She was selected as an RJI Innovation Fellow for 2023-2024 and a Knight Wallace Fellow for 2022-2023 to develop guidelines for covering natural disasters in small newsrooms. She won several international journalism prizes, including the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation Award. As of 2026, she's the only woman in the world to have won the King of Spain International Journalism Award twice.
Are Immigrants Not Engaging With Your News? Try Listening to Them First
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT