Wendy Griffin is a journalist,[1] author[2][3][4] and translator.
She is originally from Pittsburgh, PA.[5] She previously taught at the Escuela Superior del Profesorado (now UPN, Universidad Pedogogica Nacional) and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in Tegucigalpa.
[7][8] She wrote extensively on the Garifuna,[9] Pech[10] and Miskito people of Honduras.
This led to her interest in La Ciudad Blanca (Spanish for the White City) and her appearance in the movie The Search for Ciudad Blanca.
[11] Her collection of more than sixty Honduran folk artwork and handicraft pieces are part of the Burke Museum's Contemporary Culture Collection.