Ilia Calderón Chamat is a Colombian journalist. Born in Chocó, Calderón currently works as the news anchor for Univision’s national evening newscast along with Jorge Ramos. She is also the presenter of the Univision weekly newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora.
Where did Ilia Calderón go to college and high school?
She attended Universidad de Antioquia where she majored in Social Work. She won an Emmy Award for her 2017 interview with Christopher Barker, the Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard.
she made history when she replaced former co-anchor Maria Elena Salinas on Noticiero Univision. This made her the first Afro-Latina to anchor a weekday primetime newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States.
By 2007, she left Telemundo to host Univision Primer Impacto’s weekend edition. In 2009 Primer Impacto’s host Fernando del Rincon was fired and Ilia became a regular co-host on the Monday-Friday edition with Barbara Bermudo leaving the weekend edition to Satcha Pretto.
