Mariana van Zeller

Peabody and DuPont Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller is on a mission to unearth the geopolitical circumstances and context that create the multitrillion-dollar black market economy. Her National Geographic series “Trafficked” explores complex and often dangerous inner workings of the global black market underworld.

Van Zeller has earned some of the most prestigious awards in journalism and storytelling. Her 2016 investigation “Death by Fentanyl” was honored with a DuPont Award. For her report “Rape on the Reservation,” she received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Her documentary on prescription drug abuse and pill trafficking, “The OxyContin Express,” received a Peabody Award, a Television Academy Honor and an Emmy® nomination.

Van Zeller began her journalism career in her native Portugal and moved to the U.S. to attend Columbia University’s graduate school, where she met her husband and producing partner, Darren Foster. They live in Los Angeles with their son, Vasco. Van Zeller is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and French.

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