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Mariana Loizaga
About Mariana Loizaga
Mariana Loizaga, from Mexico City, is a lawyer and writer with an MSc in International Relations from the University of Surrey. She has been a writer for over ten years, including contributing to Inside Survivor and now to Surviving Tribal. Mariana's writing interests range from reviewing films, TV series, and books to gender studies, international politics, and Survivor, of course. She's been an avid fan of Survivor since 2013, when she discovered Survivor Philippines, and has since watched every Survivor US season, as well as from the show's Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Mexican versions. Mariana can always be found with a book, an iced coffee, and an endless list of writing projects, including her draft for her first novel.
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