Rosa María Santana

Rosa María Santana joined the metro staff of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland in 1999. Soon after beginning her new job assignment at the newspaper, she received two first-place awards from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors for her series, "The Quinceanera: Transitions of Life," for work she did at the Arlington (Texas) Morning News.

While in Cleveland, Santana worked on another series looking at the chain migration between Leon, Guanajuato, in Mexico and a city in northeast Ohio. She won a second-place award for that series from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists.

Born in Los Angeles, Santana worked for the Chicago Tribune and in Arlington before moving to Ohio. She is a regional director for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

She received her bachelor's degrees in communications and Spanish from the California State University, Fullerton, and has a master's degree in political science from the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, Calif.

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