In 1997, Gonzalez wrote, produced and anchored "Through the Eyes of the Children: War in Bosnia", a half-hour news special about children living in the uneasy peace of Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia. Through the "Eyes of the Children" received the Golden Mike Award for best documentary and was a finalist for the Edward R. Murrow Award. In 1999, Gonzalez travelled to refugee camps in southeast Sudan, to work with and document the relief efforts battling a famine and civil war. That coverage earned her two Emmy nominations that year. Later that year she received another Golden Mike Award for her reporting on religious pilgrimages in Cuba]and Haiti.