About this site

Impulsiva Stories is about the art of journalism. Here we explore artists' in-depth and compelling multimedia stories that change the world through extraordinary cultural creations.

Currently based out of Costa Rica. The publication was created by the Costa Rican award-winning multimedia journalist and artist Elizabeth Marie Lang Oreamuno, who tells long-form stories exploring how arts and culture are a response to a nation's social, political, and economic systems.

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About Elizabeth Marie Lang Oreamuno

Elizabeth Marie Lang Oreamuno is a Costa Rican award-winning multimedia journalist and artist. She's deeply interested in producing multimedia journalism that explores how arts and culture respond to a nation's social, political, and economic systems rather than it being a merely aesthetic discipline.

She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Journalism at the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica and her Master's of the Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication with a specialization in Arts and Culture at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In Costa Rica she was a Reporter, Assistant Editor, and Arts & Culture Coordinator at The Tico Times, where she began her career when she was 18 years old. She also published with the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica, Punto y Aparte, La Nación, DelfinoCR, and the NGO SIFAIS.

During her time at the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica (2024-2025), she was the Center’s Press Chief. She created and directed the Center's weekly column El Parlante, where she produced in-depth multimedia stories of artists in Ibero-America. These stories were simultaneously published in Madrid, Spain at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)'s website and newsletter.

In the United States she published a long-form story with Refinery29 exploring the gentrification in Manuel Antonio, which is one of Costa Rica’s renowned world destinations for people from the LGTBIQ+ community.

During her time as Ethics Fellow for UW-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics, she dove deep into understanding the ethics behind how reenactments re-victimize crime victims. Her long-form piece reflected about the problematic news coverage of the murder case of the anesthesiologist Dr. María Luisa Cedeño in Costa Rica.

To report this story in the most humane way possible, Lang Oreamuno spoke with experts in journalism, human rights, and psychology from both Costa Rica and the United States.

Then, as a freelance writer at Tone Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, Lang Oreamuno was writing, photographing, and producing documentaries and podcasts about the city’s arts and culture.

While she was in Madison obtaining her Master’s, she also produced various independent journalism projects: MAD STREET ART and COVIDA. MAD STREET ART explored the city’s inequalities through its walls’ street art. COVIDA tells the story about the coronavirus in Costa Rica.

Both of these websites garnered awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the Milwaukee Press Club. The short documentary "COVIDA" was also selected for the “Everything Covid” exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison and participated in the Latino & Native American Film Festival in New Haven, Connecticut.

Then, in her brief period as a freelance journalist (2023-2024), she began her astounding journey telling the stories of some of the world’s best artists.

One of the documentaries she directed and produced during that stage of her career, was selected for the WE:NOW Arts Festival in Madrid, Spain and the ORGU-YO exhibition in the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica. The documentary also won the Awards of Recognition for Latin / Hispanic Filmmaker and LGBTQ+ Theme at the IndieFEST Film Festival in La Jolla, California.

She also directed, produced, and edited a feature film documentary exploring the effects of music on her brain. While collaborating with a neurologist, neurosurgeon, and music therapist in search of answers to that profound curiosity, she lived through one of her life’s greatest revelations. She was diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and discovered music saved her brain.

After an extremely chaotic experience with that documentary and in need of saving that story, she had the ambitious impulse to create Impulsiva Stories.

This is her independent cultural journalism project. It's a platform where she continues on her path to tell the compelling stories of some of the world’s best artists produced from Costa Rica and Latin America to the world.

She follows her bliss and is focused on her journey of exploring how these artists’ extraordinary cultural creations reflect on what it means to be human.

By this point of her career, Lang Oreamuno’s stories showcase artists from a wide varied repertoire of countries such as Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, United States, Canada, Spain, Japan, and many more.

With more than ten years of experience, Lang Oreamuno sometimes feels she's a writer. Sometimes a filmmaker or film director. Sometimes an editor or photographer. And sometimes even as a composer.

It depends of the stories and the innate existential curiosities she’s tackling. That’s why she describes herself as a multimedia journalist and artist.