JoAnn DeLuna is an award-winning journalist/audio producer/editor, Spanish translator, and poet. She’s produced, managed, and launched shows for outlets including NPR, Sony, Pharrell Williams’ OTHERtone, Pushkin, TED Audio Collective, and more. She began her career working for newspapers along the US Mexico border as an education and crime reporter. For a decade, JoAnn covered the travel industry from Europe—where she lived for 4 years—Asia, the Americas, and eventually from New York. Her English and Spanish poetry is published in anthologies in California, New York and Texas. JoAnn has performed throughout NYC in venues including Lincoln Center, Nuyorican Poets Café, The Bushwick Starr, Ludlow House, Magnet Theater, The PIT, and more.