Facebook Logo NAME: Ada Luz Restrepo, Analyst
COMPANY: Facebook
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Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

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About Ada

Ada Luz RestrepoAda started her career as a journalist in 2000 at El Pais Newspaper, the second largest newspaper in her native country Colombia. She quickly showed her potential when she won the Chronicle of the Year for her special report on youth and ecstasy consume in the chronicle “Extasis, un trance hacia la muerte.” In 2004, after she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, Ada was invited to work as an editor at El Mundo Newspaper in Austin, TX.

After working for more than two years at El Mundo, Ada moved to San Francisco, CA, where she joined the KDTV Univision team. In 2008, she won the prestigious RTNDA Award for best News Writing. Along with her career in journalism, Ada has also worked as a translator and editor, and is currently writing for her blog (en)peliculAda.

Ada Luz Restrepo is currently an Analyst at the Spanish User Operations department in Facebook, and she also has published bilingual stories for the Facebook blog.

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