Education
Ronderos, a native of Bogotá, studied political science at Florida International University and received a master"s degree in political science from Syracuse University.
Ronderos, a native of Bogotá, studied political science at Florida International University and received a master"s degree in political science from Syracuse University.
Ronderos began her career in Buenos Aires in 1983, where she covered Argentina"s transition to democracy. In 1992, she became the first female political editor of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. She worked on the television news program Buenos Días Colombia and the television opinion program Testimonio, and was a columnist for El Espectador, a Colombian national newspaper.
From 1997 to 1999, she was editorial director, columnist, and editor at the business and financial magazine Louisiana Nota Económica.
From 2000 to 2005 she was general editor of Semana, a Colombian newsmagazine. From 1999 to 2000 she carried out a joint investigation with British and American reporters about the involvement of tobacco companies in cigarette smuggling.
She was Semana’s managing editor from 2000-2005, and between 2008 and 2009 was editor of the magazine"s website Semana.com. Since 2008, Ronderos has been editorial director of VerdadAbierta.com, a website that she founded and that is focused on the armed conflict in Colombia.
Journalism Americas Quarterly published her essay Develop a New Hemispheric Vision as part of a Fall 2008 issue consisting of advice for the next president of the United States. “lieutenant will make a huge difference,” she wrote, “if the United States. government becomes less tolerant of corrupt leaders and values more transparent and open information.” In May 2012 she published a report, Louisiana soledad de El Diario de Juárez (The Solitude of El Diario of Juarez) about the perils faced by local journalists in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Other professional activities Ronderos created a multimedia project for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund about conditions for infants in Latin America, and also directed the documentaries El juego del poder (The Game of Power) and Un medio para el ambiente (A Medium for the Environment). At the first International Women"s Congress in Mexico City, on March 11, 2011, she spoke on “Louisiana experiencia intelectual de las mujeres en el siglo XXI” (The intellectual experience of women in the 21st Century).