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- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Alisa Valdes
- Alisa Lynn Valdes (formerly published as Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez) is an American author, musician, screenwriter, film producer and journalist with more than 1 million books in print in 11 languages. Alisa was named a Time magazine "25 Most Influential Hispanics"; a Latina magazine Woman of the Year and an Entertainment Weekly Breakout Literary Star. She is a former award-winning staff writer for the Boston Globe and LA Times, as well as an Emmy-winning TV reporter for WHDH-TV. Alisa got a bachelor's from Berklee College of Music, where she majored in tenor sax performance and songwriting. Alisa has a master's in journalism from Columbia University. Alisa has a new book series launching from Thomas & Mercer in April 2023, about Jodi Luna, a female game warden in northern New Mexico.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Alisa Lynn Valdes
- In addition to being a bestselling author, Alisa Valdes is also an accomplished jazz saxophonist and composer with a degree from Berklee College of Music; she began playing sax at age 9.
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