In May of 2010, she was awarded the National Journalism Prize (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) for her article "Carta Abierta a Carlos Slim" published in Proceso magazine (number 1685, February 14,2009). She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk shows "Entreversiones"and “El País de Uno” on Mexican television. She is a Contributing Editor at the Los Angeles Times, and has contributed numerous opinion pieces to The New York Times and La Opinion, and is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics in the U.S. and Canadian media. She has also worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, Barings Research and the Bank of Montreal. Dr. Dresser has been a member of the Research Council of the Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the advisory board of Trans-National Research Corporation, the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review, the advisory board of Human Rights Watch, the Global Affairs Board at Occidental College, the board of the General Service Foundation and the editorial committee of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. She also served on the Citizens’ Committee in charge of investigating Mexico’s dirty war. She is currently on the board of the Human Rights Commission for Mexico City.
She edited a bestselling collection of essays by prominent Mexican women entitled Gritos y susurros: experiencias intempestivas de 38 mujeres (2004), and also produced a television documentary based on the book. In collaboration with novelist Jorge Volpi, she edited a book of political satire México: lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de su patria (2006). Her most recent publication is Gritos y susurros II: experiencias intempestivas de otras 39 mujeres (2009), a second volume with a new group of prominent Mexican women. She has been named one of the 300 most influential people in Mexico by the magazine Líderes Mexicanos.
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