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Peabody and DuPont Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller is on a mission to unearth the geopolitical circumstances and context that create the multitrillion-dollar black market economy. Her National Geographic series \u201cTrafficked\u201d explores complex and often dangerous inner workings of the global black market underworld.

In each episode of the new season, she investigates a different underworld \u2014 from the trade in body parts and hired assassins to sextortion and the smuggling of brides \u2014 to meet the players, learn the business, and better understand the world\u2019s multitrillion-dollar shadow economy.

Van Zeller has earned some of the most prestigious awards in journalism and storytelling. Her 2016 investigation \u201cDeath by Fentanyl\u201d was honored with a DuPont Award. For her report \u201cRape on the Reservation,\u201d she received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Her documentary on prescription drug abuse and pill trafficking, \u201cThe OxyContin Express,\u201d received a Peabody Award, a Television Academy Honor and an Emmy\xae nomination.

Van Zeller began her journalism career in her native Portugal and moved to the U.S. to attend Columbia University\u2019s graduate school, where she met her husband and producing partner, Darren Foster. They live in Los Angeles with their son, Vasco. Van Zeller is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and French.

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