Mirta Ojito is a Cuban-born author and journalist.
She has written two nonfiction books, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, a book about her journey to the U.S.
as a teenager in the Mariel boatlift, and Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town." She was part of a group of New York Times reporters who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race in America.
More recently, she was a member of the Telemundo team that won an Emmy for the coverage of Pope Francis's visit to the Americas.