Steven Dudley. Journalist. Co-director of InSight-Organized Crime in the Americas. Research, analysis and investigation on organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean.

InSight, is a joint initiative of American University and the Fundación Ideas para la Paz in Colombia, South America, aimed at monitoring. Based in Washington D.C., Dudley works with a team of five investigators and various contributors throughout the region to give the public a more complete view of how organized crime works in the Americas, as well as its impact on public policy and communities from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.

Before launching InSight, he worked as the Bureau Chief for The Miami Herald in the Andean Region and wrote a book: Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela and Miami for National Public Radio, The Washington Post, and the BBC’s The World, and written feature articles for The Washington Post Magazine, The Economist, Columbia Journalism Review, The Progressive, and The Nation. His current projects include a documentary film, which aired on Colombia’s RCN Television in September 2010.

Dudley has a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2007, Dudley was awarded the prestigious Knight Fellowship for professional journalists. He has also received other awards and honorable mentions for his work as a journalist.