Juanita León

Juanita León García (born 1970) is a Colombian journalist, writer, and public speaker.

She worked as a reporter on the Wall Street Journal Americas before returning to Colombia in 1998.

In Colombia, León worked for the newspaper El Tiempo and for Semana magazine.

She was editor-in-chief of the weekly's website and collaborated with the TV series Tiempos difíciles and Regreso a la Esperanza.

With this grant and her share in her family's food production firm, León founded La Silla Vacía, a news website focused on Colombian politics.