Margarita Persico, the founder and publisher of The Healthy Dish, is an investigative and a multimedia journalist passionate about what makes the world tick. She is a freelance writer, researcher, media producer who also has been blogging for years. She has worked in public relations, and is a nonprofit communicator, foodista, writer, blogger, world traveler, student of many things, sometimes teacher/speaker, fully bilingual (Spanish and English with working knowledge of Portuguese and Italian). She has a master’s degree from Harvard University (2009), has published articles — mostly about health — in newspapers, magazines, nonprofit and corporate newsletters in the U.S. and Costa Rica. Before becoming a journalist in 2007, she worked for over a decade as a computer system analyst. She is a wife, and she is a friend, aunt and cousin to many.
