Arce is a senior producer for CNN, based in New York. She began her television career at CBS and WCBS where she won two Emmys for Spot news and Investigative Reporting. She was previously a print reporter, most recently for New York Newsday, where she shared the Pulitzer for Spot News Reporting. She has served on the boards of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, as well as the San Francisco State University Newswatch project. Arce is also a member of the judges’ panel for the Sidney Hillman Awards.