Editor-in-Chief and Anchorwoman, MTV Latin-America

Ilana Sod is MTV Latin America's Editor-in-Chief and Anchorwoman for the News bureau of Public Affairs. For the last decade, her journalistic standpoint has been found in different media outlets in her home country of Mexico, Latin America -and internationally.

Back in 1999 and 2001, Sod coordinated 'Radio Sex Project', a 48-hours of investigative reports about sex for 98.5FM 'Radioactivo' (a cutting-edge radio station for young people in Mexico City where she worked for almost 8 years).

At the sunup of the War in Iraq in early 2003, Sod was the correspondent based in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for 90.5FM 'Imagen Informativa' (a countrywide news radio station in Mexico).

By August of that same year, Sod co-produced for MTV Latin America the Promax-awarded PSA campaign 'Grita!' (Speak Out!) that empowered kids to be more communicative about their sexuality.

In 2004, Sod was part of the first ever co-production between CNN and MTV, Staying Alive: A News Special;, that premiered globally on World AIDS Day, December 1st. Her segment focused on how machismo impacts the vulnerability of HIV/AIDS infection among young people -particularly women- in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.

While covering the 2005 Video Music Awards in Miami, she broke the news about the Hurricane Katrina crossing southern Florida, days before the catastrophic landfall along the Gulf coast by the end of August. Two months later, when in the Mayan Riviera spearheading the News unit at the MTV Latin America VMA's, once again she was prompted to report the track of Hurricane Wilma towards to Mexican mainland.

In May and June of 2006, Sod was the only Newscaster allowing the young audience to ask any kind of questions directly to all five Mexican presidential candidates, exactly one month before of the general election in Mexico, July 2nd. The TV series, the first of this nature in the history of Mexican media, were titled 'Somos 30 Millones' (We Are 30 Million).

For the last six months, she is the on-going production of 'Agentes de Cambio' (Agents Of Change), a pro-social project of Noticias MTV and the Inter-American Development Bank funded by the Government of Finland. This documentary-style series profiles the stories of young volunteers and their new NGOs from all over the Americas.

Currently her weekly column 'Casi Diez' (Almost Ten) is published by Mexican newspaper Excelsior and she voices out opinions in 'Amplio Espectro' (Wide Spectrum) in 1290AM 'Trece'.

Sod has also recently moderated debates featuring global leaders, like the Youth Forum 'From Rhetoric to Action' in Toronto's UNICEF International AIDS Conference and the Youth Conversation 'Agents of Change' in Guatemala City's Annual Inter-American Development Bank Meeting.