Natasha Del Toro

Natasha Del Toro is the host of America ReFramed, a series of 26 independent films that tells the many stories of our transforming American culture and celebrates our broad diversity. Del Toro brings an urban, young and energetic voice to the series, weaving the diverse stories together with her journalistic approach. An independent documentary producer and journalist, she has produced videos for public television's WORLDchannel.org, The Daily, TIME.com, and PBS' FRONTLINE World.

Most recently, Del Toro was a video journalist at TIME.com, where she covered a wide range of topics, including the environment, immigration and politics. She was the on-camera reporter for the Person of the Year brand, and her coverage of the Haiti earthquake was part of an online package that won a New York Press Club award.

During the 2008 presidential election, she produced videos as the Florida correspondent for TIME.com. She was also an on-camera reporter for PBS' FRONTLINE World at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Prior to that, her interest in Latin America and the Caribbean led her to produce two short documentaries for FRONTLINE World, the first about a pair of visual artists in Cuba and the other about a socially conscious musician in Haiti. Del Toro also worked with award-winning journalist Lowell Bergman as an associate producer for a PBS Frontline documentary on multinational gold mining in Peru.

Born to Puerto Rican parents and raised in North Carolina, she feels she’s a healthy mix of Hispanic and Southern, which has come in handy when reporting on different groups and covering the growing population of Hispanics in the US.

In addition to hosting America ReFramed, she’s currently working on a multimedia project called American Realities about poverty in America, featuring audio recordings and photography from a cross-country trip she took last summer with Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen on an assignment for TIME.

Del Toro got her start more than a decade ago at a local newsweekly in Tampa as an arts and cultural reporter. As a freelance writer, her articles have appeared in The Tampa Bay Times (formerly known as the St. Petersburg Times,) Smithsonian Magazine online, Americas Magazine and the Tampa Tribune.

She attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, from which she earned masters' degrees in arts and cultural reporting and in broadcast journalism, and is a 2013 Fulbright Scholarship recipient. Del Toro resides in Brooklyn.