Saraiva was a “Poverty and Inequality” series speaker in March 2021: Women Ousted from the Labor Force.

Catarina Saraiva is the Dallas bureau chief for Bloomberg News and a reporter covering the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy. Catarina focuses her economics reporting on the labor market and economic inequality along race, gender and income lines. Catarina has chronicled the pandemic’s disparate impact on women, minorities and low-wage workers, the rise in food insecurity in the U.S. and the lack of diversity at the Federal Reserve. As Dallas bureau chief, she oversees a team of reporters covering metroplex issues and Texas business themes. Catarina has been at Bloomberg for 11 years and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish, which she speaks fluently along with Portuguese and English.