Maria Baltazzi

Maria Baltazzi is a Los Angeles-based television producer, known for her work on a variety of unscripted, action-adventure shows. Some of her credits are working as one of the original four producers on CBS's Emmy award-winning show, Survivor and executive producer on TLC's record-breaking Sarah Palin's Alaska, which debuted at 5 million viewers. The first episode of this eight-part series was the most watched program launch in the network's history.

Maria has done a variety of shows that have aired on CBS, History, TLC, Discovery, and A&E. In 2001, she received an Emmy for the first two seasons of Survivor. That same year, she was also Emmy nominated for Eco Challenge: Borneo.

After seven seasons, Maria left Survivor to begin developing shows and showrunning. In 2009, in association with Mark Burnett, Maria developed and executive produced History Channel's critically acclaimed Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone. Then, she went on to produce TLC's hit series, Sarah Palin's Alaska in 2010.

Maria's production banner is called "Sojourn" (www.sojourn-usa.com).