Eileen Truax was born in Mexico City in 1970. She has a degree in Social Communication and a Masters in Communications and Politics from the Autonomous University of Mexico,Xochimilco. She has practiced journalism in Mexico for 10 years, specializing in political themes and social movements. She emigrated to the United States in 2004, where she has been a reporter for La Opinin newspaper and is a contributor to the Huffington Post Voices.