Doreen Carvajal is a former New York Times culture reporter and the author of The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition, which explored her quest to recover her Catholic family’s secret Jewish identity that led from Costa Rica to Segovia, Spain to the tombs of 15th century ancestors investigated by the Inquisition for heresy. Based in Paris, she is co-founder of the Orphan Art Project, which aids descendants seeking restitution of looted art and recovery of family history. She appears in the film Stealing Italy, the final episode of the documentary series Hunting Nazi Treasure.