Isa is a Peruvian-American journalist based in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College in May 2024 where she served as the 147th Arts & Culture Editor for the Columbia Daily Spectator.

She is currently a staff reporter at Hyperallergic, covering arts and culture news. 

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.

She likes to dance, write (creatively), and try every free yoga trial she can get her hands on. Her creative writing appears in Quarto, Columbia's Undergraduate Literary Magazine,  4x4 Magazine, and Columbia's The Eye Magazine.

She is also human, and enjoys doing absolutely nothing whenever she can.