Isa is a Peruvian-American journalist and incidental writer based in New York City. She was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Bay Area, California. 

She is a staff reporter for Hyperallergic, covering arts and culture. 

She has bylines in Al Jazeera English, NBC News, NBC Latino, Columbia Daily Spectator, Hawaii News Now, POLITICO, Hyperallergic, and Untapped New York. She is a member of the NAHJ, Dow Jones News Fund, and the 2024 POLITICO Journalism Institute. Her collegiate reporting earned a Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Her poetry is sometimes published.