Reyes was born and raised in
Mexico City and graduated from
Columbia University in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. At Columbia, she wrote for
Columbia Daily Spectator, where she broke the
Nutellagate scandal surrounding the alleged student theft of Nutella from Columbia's dining halls, costing the university up to 100 pounds of Nutella a day and $5,000 per week. She was a Google Journalism and News Apps fellow at
ProPublica and worked at
The Boston Globe and
New York Daily News as an intern. Reyes joined
Chicago Tribune in 2016 as a bilingual reporter on the paper's investigative team. She led a two-year investigation called "The Failures Before the Fires" with Madison Hopkins of the
Better Government Association, which looked into fatal fires that exposed flaws in Chicago's building code enforcement, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. Reyes joined
Insider Inc. in July 2022 as a senior reporter for the investigations team. == References ==