Alisa Lynn Valdes
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Alisa Valdes is an American award-winning journalist, bestselling novelist and screenwriter, born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a former staff writer for the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. Time magazine named her one of the "25 Most Influential Hispanics" in the United States. Latina Magazine named her a "Woman of the Year," and Entertainment Weekly hailed her as a "Breakout Literary Star." Valdes earned a bachelor of science in music from Berklee College of Music, where she majored in saxophone performance; and a master of science from Columbia University, where she majored in print journalism. Valdes' father was born in Cuba. Her mother is a native New Mexican.