Anna Giaritelli is an award-winning journalist and writer whose reporting for the Washington Examiner on the U.S. border crisis earned runner-up at the 2024 Dao Prize for Investigative Reporting. A seasoned homeland security and immigration reporter, she has also been a frequent guest on Fox News, Newsmax, and C-SPAN, as well as nationally syndicated radio programs including those hosted by Sean Hannity, Lars Larson, and the SiriusXM Patriot Network.

In August 2025, Anna broke a story that shook the capital. In her op-ed titled “A man went to prison for assaulting me. DC Police crime stats show he was never arrested,” she revealed for the first time that she had survived a daylight sexual assault near Union Station in Washington, D.C. Despite her attacker being identified, prosecuted, and imprisoned, the case was never included in the city’s official crime data. The omission underscored systemic flaws in how law enforcement reports and acknowledges crime—and sparked a national reckoning.

Her testimony has since become part of that broader conversation: Anna has appeared before Congress, lending her voice to the countless victims whose experiences remain uncounted and unheard. Her forthcoming memoir will expand on this story, blending her perspective as both a reporter and a survivor, and reflecting on what it means to confront trauma, tell the truth, and move forward.