For Marcela Kane Lantrip, coming from a family of intellectuals is one way to stay motivated and aim for success. Her grandfather was a journalist by the name Carlos J. Villar Borda, who worked in the United Press International (UPI) news agency. Villar Borda also worked as a correspondent in the White House, and his father before him was a director of the Associated Press (AP) office in Bogota, Colombia.
