Marcela García

Marcela García is a columnist for The Boston Globe's opinion page, covering a wide range of topics — from public education and immigration policy to social inequities and the Latino community in Boston and beyond.

García also writes ¡Mira!, the Globe's first weekly newsletter written in both English and Spanish, offering readers a bilingual perspective on politics, policy, people, and pop culture through the lens of the immigrant experience.

García serves as Associate Editor and sits on the Globe's editorial board, where she occasionally writes editorials — the daily, unsigned essays that represent the institutional voice of The Boston Globe. She has been part of the Globe's opinion and editorial pages since early 2014 and has covered issues affecting the region's Hispanic communities for nearly two decades. Previously, she was a correspondent for Telemundo Boston, a special contributor to the Boston Business Journal, and editor of El Planeta, Boston's largest Spanish-language publication.

In 2025, García was named a 2026 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. That same year, she — along with colleagues Alan Wirzbicki and David Scharfenberg — was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Editorial Writing for a series of “politically courageous and deeply reported editorials on how Boston can humanely and effectively close underutilized schools in ways that improve student learning.

She received the inaugural Impact Award from the New England Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2023, given to a journalist who has demonstrated leadership in promoting fair coverage of Latinos and advancing Latino/a/x journalists in the news industry. The executive board praised García's “thoroughly reported” columns on issues affecting Latinos in New England, noting that she writes “with authority, clarity, and an empathetic heart that engages readers and galvanizes public officials into action.”

García earned a graduate degree in journalism from the Harvard Extension School in 2005 and holds a B.S. in economics. Originally from Monterrey, México, she moved to Boston more than two decades ago and now lives in Hyde Park with her husband and two yellow Labradors.