Debbie Ponchner is an experienced assigning editor who has worked closely with Latin American journalists, both as an editor at La Nación, Costa Rica's major newspaper, and as an editor of Scientific American en Español. She holds a master's in science journalism from the Universitat Pompeu Farba, Barcelona, Spain, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in the academic year of 2003-04.

Twitter: @debbieponchner