Alex Leff was a senior editor at PRI based in Washington, DC. He previously worked as GlobalPost's Americas editor and Costa Rica correspondent. While in Costa Rica, Alex also worked as a Reuters reporter and online editor for The Tico Times.A Brooklyn native, Alex went global in 2000, living in Spain for seven years. In Barcelona is where he deepened his love for journalism, reporting at a local English-language paper and completing a Barcelona University master's in journalism organized with Columbia University.