Adriana Aristizabal

Founder & CEO

iVoice Communications
Adriana Aristizabal is a journalist, Business Administrator, author and a former war reporter. Recently HOLA Magazine selected her as a Top 100 Latina Powerhouse 2020 in the United States. Currently she runs iVoice Communications, a Global Public Relations Agency she founded in 2014. From this capacity, she helps companies and organizations in the United States with an interest in the Global Hispanic market. Since 2017, Adriana has served as a spokesperson for NYC & Company, the marketing organization in charge of promoting New York City around the world. During the COVID-19 crisis, Adriana's work with the city of New York has obtained great relevance, since it has stood out as one of the Hispanic voices that are promoting the reopening of the tourism industry, a sector that in 2019, received 66.6 million tourists, generated 400,000 jobs and 70 billion dollars in revenue to the city. In 2017, Adriana published her second book “Caught in the Storm of War: Memoirs of a War Reporter” with York House Press. In 2003, he published "La Guaca de las FARC: I found it" with Quintero Editores. She has been a guest speaker at the best universities in the United States. In 2017, she participated as a guest speaker at Columbia University in the 50 Fortune Most Powerful Latinas, an event organized by Alpha and Fortune Magazine. As a war reporter in the late 1990s, Adriana provided coverage of the war on drug trafficking and terrorism from the trenches in southern Colombia. She worked for Noticias RCN and CM&. In 2003, the Colombian Congress recognized her work with a proclamation. In 2004, after receiving death threats from the FARC, Adriana turned her career around by securing a new job opportunity with the Colombian Consulate in New York City. In 2010, the New York Council recognized her contributions in the field of arts and culture and in 2014 El Diario awarded her with the “Outstanding Women” award.