Georgetown Americas Institute

Mary Beth Sheridan is a veteran journalist who spent 14 years as a correspondent in Latin America for the Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, and most recently, The Washington Post. She has won three Overseas Press Club prizes for her reporting on Mexico as well as the Maria Moors Cabot award, the most prestigious for coverage of the Americas. At The Post, she also covered immigration, homeland security and diplomacy and served as deputy foreign editor from 2015 to 2018. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross and has been a resident fellow at Columbia University’s journalism school and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.