Ana Campoy

I'm an economics editor at Quartz. I was previously at the Wall Street Journal, where I covered everything from the economy to natural disasters to Texas quirks such as suburban feral pigs. I spent last year as a Nieman fellow at Harvard, where I studied the backlash against globalization and how the media can promote a more fruitful public debate on such complex, polarizing issues.

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Quartz • 28th April 2019

I tried to make my own tortillas from scratch the Mexican way in the US, and it was a disaster

The American way of life is incompatible with traditional tortillas.

Quartzy • 28th April 2019

Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” shows domestic workers’ complex emotional labor

Cleo’s state of constant flux—from outsider to intimate, from substitute mother to maid—will strike a chord for anyone around the world who has been served by, or has served as, a domestic worker.

Quartzy • 28th April 2019

The argument for reading your child books about violence, racism, and sexism

If you want to raise woke and culturally aware kids, don't avoid the difficult conversations.

Quartz • 28th April 2019

If you want to get to Cuba “before it changes,” you’re already too late

That's a good thing: It's a much friendlier and happier place than 15 years ago.

Quartz • 28th April 2019

Fidel Castro, a giant influence in Latin American literature, once edited Gabriel García Márquez

The Cuban Revolution was a catalyst, in many senses, for the region's writers.