Mariana van Zeller Biography
Mariana van Zeller is a Peabody Award-winning Portuguese journalist and National Geographic Channel correspondent. She is also the Fusion chief correspondent and a former correspondent for Current TV’s Vanguard documentary series.
Mariana van Zeller Age
She is 46 years old as of 7 May 2022. She was born on 7 May 1976 in Cascais, Portugal.
Mariana van Zeller Husband
Zeller is married to her former Columbia classmate Darren Foster, who is a National Geographic Channel series producer and director. In July 2010, she gave birth to their son, Vasco.
Mariana van Zeller Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Mariana van Zeller Education
Zeller earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Universidade Lusada de Lisboa. She applied for a master’s degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism three times: the first was denied, and the second was placed on a wait list. Van Zeller herself stated that after her third application, in 2001, she flew to New York City and knocked on the dean’s door, explaining her desire to work as a journalist in the United States. According to her, the dean was impressed and allowed her to enroll.
Mariana Zeller Documentary
Van Zeller moved to London after graduating from Columbia, hoping to work for a documentary producer and cover the Iraq War. She moved to London and studied Arabic at Damascus University in Syria in order to better pursue stories in the Middle East. Her freelance documentaries from Syria aired on PBS’s Frontline/World, the CBC, and Channel 4 over the next two years (United Kingdom). She began working for Current TV in 2005 as a correspondent and producer for the Vanguard documentary series.
Mariana Zeller Career
The September 11th attacks occurred one month after she moved to New York City. A producer from SIC Notcias, where she had previously interned, contacted her that morning and directed her to meet a news crew atop the CBS Building in Midtown Manhattan, where she would go live in three hours. She was told before going on the air, “Make yourself ready. The entire country of Portugal is watching you.”
She claims she spent two years after graduation working at SIC, the first and largest Portuguese private television network at the time. She began her career in the main network’s travel and international departments before moving on to SIC Notcias, the network’s news channel.
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