Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

Forbes Staff|Leadership

Maria Gracia Santillana is a NYC-based reporter on the careers team covering workplace and job market trends and the author of Forbes’ Careers newsletter. She’s written about the rights of protesting employees and the rise of AI career coaches. Santillana joined Forbes in June 2022 in the crypto beat, where she covered crypto markets, bankruptcies, legislative campaigns and consumer applications (NFTs). She also wrote Forbes’ Bad Bunny cover, the first digital cover to be published in Spanish. Follow Santillana for the latest in the world of work. 

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