Elisabeth is WHYY’s Executive Producer of Audio Content. From a journalistic background (her mother was a writer in Paris), Perez-Luna first came to the United States in 1970 as the New York correspondent for the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional. Perez-Luna has developed, produced and edited the weekly news magazine programs Crossroads and Artbeat, which aired on almost 200 other public radio stations, including WHYY. Perez-Luna has produced award-winning series from her own state-of-the-art studio in West Chester, PA. She is the recipient of three Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards, the Columbia University Major Armstrong award and one from the Philadelphia Society for Professional Journalists, and others.