Ilia Calderón

Ilia Calderón Chamat
Ilia Calderón in 2024.
Born1972 (age 53–54)
Chocó, Colombia
Alma materUniversidad de Antioquia
OccupationsNews anchor, Aquí y Ahora, Noticiero N+ Univision

Ilia Calderón Chamat (born 1972) is a Colombian journalist. Born in Chocó, Calderón currently works as the news anchor for Univision's national evening newscast Noticiero N+ Univision. She is also the presenter of the Univision weekly newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora.[1]

Education and early career

She majored in social work at Universidad de Antioquia.[2] She presented several news shows, first on regional channel Teleantioquia in 1994,[3] and subsequently on national television channel Noticiero CM&. Three years later, she went to Telemundo, where she hosted the Noticiero Telemundo weekend edition and a segment on the morning show Cada Día con María Antonieta.

In 2005, she underwent a successful operation to remove a uterine tumor.[4]

In March 2007, she left Telemundo to host Univision the Primer Impacto weekend edition.[5] In 2008 Primer Impacto host Fernando del Rincón was fired. Ilia became a regular co-host on the weekday edition, with Barbara Bermudo leaving the weekend edition to Satcha Pretto.

In 2010, while still co-anchoring Primer Impacto, she became the co-anchor of the weekday edition of Univision's late evening newscast Noticiero N+ Univision Edición Nocturna.

On June 3, 2011, it was announced that Pamela Silva would be joining Primer Impacto, replacing Ilia Calderón, who stayed on Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna.[6]

Calderón won an Emmy Award for her 2017 interview of Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard Christopher Barker. In December 2017, she replaced former co-anchor Maria Elena Salinas on Noticiero Univision, becoming the first Afro-Latina to anchor a weekday primetime newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States.

In 2019, the Carnegie Corporation of New York named her one of their 2019 Great Immigrants Honorees.[7]

On March 15, 2020, she co-hosted the eleventh Democratic presidential debate on CNN with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.[8]

In 2020, she published her book My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race, discussing her experiences as an Afro-Latina and the challenges in representing the Afro-Latina communities in Spanish.[9]

In July 2023 her show Señales del Crimen con Ilia Calderón (Signs of Crime with Ilia Calderón) made its debut on the streaming platform ViX.[10]

On September 27, 2023, she co-hosted the second Republican presidential debate on Fox Business with Stuart Varney and Dana Perino.[11]

On October 28, 2024, Univision announced that Calderón would become the first solo anchor of Noticiero N+ Univision following the departure of Jorge Ramos. Calderón is the first Black Latina to helm an evening news show.[12]

Personal life

She is married to Eugene Jang; they have one daughter named Anna Janglia-calderon.

References

  1. ^ "Aquí y Ahora". Univision. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Personajes del Chocó" (in Spanish). La voz de la selva. 2005. Retrieved 2006-03-24.
  3. ^ "Ilia Calderón". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  4. ^ "El desafío de Ilia Calderón". People en Español (in Spanish). 2005-06-29. Retrieved 2006-03-24.
  5. ^ del Campillo, Laura (2007-03-09). "Ilia Calderón de estreno" (in Spanish). Univision. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2006-03-24.
  6. ^ "Pamela Silva Conde Joins Univision's "Primer Impacto" (in Spanish). Univision. 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  7. ^ "Ilia Calderón". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  8. ^ "Who are the moderators of the D.C. Democratic debate? Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, and Ilia Calderón to moderate in nation's capital". Newsweek. 15 March 2020.
  9. ^ Reyes, Paul A. (2020-08-05). "'I have no fears': Afro-Latina news anchor Ilia Calderón confronts racism in new memoir". NBC News. Retrieved 2025-03-27.
  10. ^ Villafañe, Veronica. "Ilia Calderón-Hosted New True Crime Documentary Series Debuts On ViX". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  11. ^ "Ilia Calderón will be co-moderating tonight's 2024 Republican presidential debate". Los Angeles Times. 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  12. ^ Ginestra, Mauricio (2024-10-29). "Ilia Calderón Makes A Historic Step in American TV". Latin Times. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
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