Marisela Amador

Marisela Amador is an award-winning journalist currently working as a digital reporter for CTV Montreal.

She graduated from Concordia University in 2018 with a Major in Journalism and a Minor in English Literature. 

She began her career covering Kanien'kehá:ka communities in southern Quebec for the Indigenous newspaper The Eastern Door, first as a reporter and later as assistant editor.

She later worked for the Canadian Press, where she covered stories of national importance with a focus on immigration. During a 2023 migration influx, she reported on irregular border crossings from the ground at Roxham Road, documenting asylum seekers’ experiences before and after changes to the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States took effect.

Her broadcast experience began with APTN News, where she traveled across Quebec as a reporter-correspondent for both APTN National News and its French counterpart, Nouvelles Nationales d’APTN.

Born in Nicaragua, she moved to Montreal as a child.