Ilia Calderón is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, the co-anchor of Univision’s flagship evening newscast Noticiero Univision, and cohost of Univision’s primetime news magazine Aquí y Ahora. She is the first Afro-Latina to anchor a national weekday evening newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States, having previously co-anchored three other news desks for Univision and two for Telemundo. She is the author of My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race (2020).