Email: mary.dambrosio@nyu.edu

Mary D'Ambrosio is an adjunct professor, and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute's Editor at Large. She is the founding director of the Institute's Livewire News Service which syndicates student work to more than 100 professional publications nationally, and co-editor, with Distinguished Writer in Residence Pete Hamill, of Street Level the annual magazine of top undergraduate journalism.

A writer specializing in international and economic issues, she is a former editor at Global Finance magazine in New York, reporter for the Associated Press in Venezuela, and correspondent and book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Other credits include Islands, Institutional Investor, Working Woman, Working Mother and Newsday.

Prof. D'Ambrosio has worked extensively in Latin America, covering the Mexican peso crisis, the North American Free Trade Agreement and developing country investment. She's also reported from Turkey and Russia. In 2009, she founded Big World Magazine a multimedia magazine to showcase narrative journalism about places.

She holds a B.S. in magazine journalism from Syracuse University, and an M.Sc. in economic history from the London School of Economics.

Prof. D'Ambrosio teaches several courses, including a popular class in travel writing, and serves on the editorial board of Abroad View, a national magazine to promote international education.

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