I’m a freelance journalist.
I go from text to images, back and forth again.
I write, produce, research. I publish in media such as The New York Times, Gatopardo, La Jornada; and I have collaborated with Al Jazeera Witness, RedFish, Vice, among others.
I was a correspondent for teleSUR and El Telégrafo. I am founder and editor of Bocado.lat.
I have been a Pulitzer Center and Rainforest Fund fellow, teaming up with Soledad Barruti and Miguel Tovar; I have also been a fellow of UNESCO’s Investigative Journalism Pilot Programme with Wendy Selene Pérez and Miguel Tovar.
I wrote the book Ayotzinapa, horas eternas (with three editions: Ediciones B, Eduvim, Brigada para Leer en Libertad). I am co-author of four other books
Together with John Gibler and Daniela Rea, I did the research for the documentary VIVOS, directed by Ai Wei Wei (2020). I worked on The Days of Ayotzinapa (Netflix, 2019) and Blood in the wall (National Geographic/Junger Quested, 2020) Endangered (HBO/Loki Films, 2022) among other experiences. I researched and hosted the US-Mexico chapter of the series After the War (Muzungu-teleSUR, 2019).
I sometimes work as an external consultant for non-governmental organisations. I have written three reports on violence against the press, right to truth, children and disappearance.
In 2019 and 2022 we were awarded Mexico’s National Journalism Prize in the chronicle and reportage categories, respectively, teaming up with Wendy Selene Pérez and Miguel Tovar. In 2022, one of our articles won second place in the Breach-Valdez Journalism Prize and in the same year another article received a special mention in the Latin American Investigative Journalism Prize awarded by COLPIN.
Resume
Fellowship: Amazon Rainforest Journalism Found Pulitzer Center, 2021
Awards: National Journalism Prize of Mexico 2019, chronicle category, work Los jornaleros forenses.
Mexican National Journalism Award 2019, reporting category, work Traficantes de ADN (DNA Traffickers).
Reporting and writing
Has written in The New York Times, Gatopardo, BOMB, Newsweek en español, Rolling Stone, Soho, Pie de Página/Periodistas de a Pie (México), Página/12 (Argentina), among others. Some examples:
Veracruz de los silencios, a long-therm research about journalists murdered in Veracruz state, México, from 2010 to 2016. Study of a paradigmatic case in one of the most dangerous countries in the world to practice journalism (Article 19, 2024).
Rewind: ways of denying Argentina's recent history. Essay and opinion text (Gatopardo, 2024, edited by Leila Guerriero).
La Guatemorfosis, Carne drogada, El río es una persona, La cajita (in) feliz y otros textos en www.bocado.lat (2020-2021)
DNA traffickers, investigation of the theft and sale of genetic profiles carried out by the Mexican State in complicity with a private company (with Wendy Selene Pérez, Miguel Tovar and Luis Brito, Gatopardo, 2021).
Dark times for Mexican journalism. Opinion piece (The New York Times, 2021).
Forensic laborers. Chronicle of a new profession in a country of graves (with Miguel Tovar and Wendy Selene Pérez, Gatopardo, 2019).
The death of a Genocide. Opinion piece (The New York Times, 2019).
She is also reporter, writer and editor on Bocado, a latin-american network of journalism and feeding (www.bocado.lat).
Books
Author of Ayotzinapa, horas eternas (Ediciones B-México, 2015; Eduvim-Argentina, 2017; Brigada para Leer en Libertad-México, 2019).
Co-author of An insurrection of the gaze. Infrarealist chronicles (Editorial Rayuela, México, 2021). Anthology directed by Diego Enrique Osorno, with texts of Wendy Selene Pérez, Juan Pablo MenesesVania Pigenout, Neldy San Martín, Alejandro Sánchez, Luciana Wainer, Luis Mendoza Ovando, Caracol López, José Luis Valencia, Beatriz García, Melissa del Pozo, César Alan Ruiz García, Arturo de Dios Palma.
Co-author of Chronicle number 4 (UNAM, 2021). Anthology directed by María Fernanda Ampuero.
Co-author of Words like blows, like bullets. Infrarealist chronicles (Editorial Rayuela, México, 2019). Anthology directed by Diego Enrique Osorno, with texts of Víctor Hugo Michel, Juan Pablo Meneses, Paula Mónaco Felipe, Diego Enrique Osorno, Wendy Selene Pérez, Vania Pigeonutt, Emiliano Ruiz Parra, César Alan Ruiz García, Alejandro Sánchez, Neldy San Martín, Wilbert Torre, Alma Vigil.
Co-author of Let’s talk about your wall (The Publisher, USA, 2020), anthology directed by Carmen Boullosa and Alberto Quintero, with texts of con textos de Juan Villoro, Carlos Pereda, Yásnaya Elena, Emiliano Monge, Jean Meyer, Guadalupe Nettel, Paula Mónaco Felipe y Valeria Luiselli y Ana Puentes Flores, and others.
Co-author of Ya no somos las mismas y aquí sigue la guerra (Grijalbo, México, 2020), anthology directed by Daniela Rea with texts of Alejandra E. Saavedra López, Celia Guerrero, Daliri Oropeza, Daniela Pastrana, Daniela Rea, Emanuela Borzacchiello, Erik Meza, Erika Lozano, Eunice Adorno, Félix Márquez, Héctor Guerrero, José Ignacio de Alba, Lydiette Carrión, Marcela Turati, Marina Azahua, Mónica González, Paula Mónaco, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Uribe, Verónica Gago y Ximena Natera.
Audiovisual
Producer of fiction film Cobre, directed by Nicolás Pereda (2023-work in progress).
Director of short documentary films Guatemala’s past unearthed (Al Jazeera, 2023) and Masala & Maíz, all about liberty (EST MEDIA, 2023).
Field producer in Mexico for In Real Life/Blocking the sun (Scripps News, 2023).
Researcher in the documentary Vivos, directed by Ai Wei Wei (2020).
Producer of fiction film Skin of sky, blood of Heaven, directed by Andrea Bussmann (2019-2020-work in progress).
Field producer and archives researcher in the documentary Blood on the wall directed by Nick Quested and Sebastian Junger, produced by National Geographic and Goldcrest Films (2020).
Researcher in documentary series Los días de Ayotzinapa -The 43 in English platform-, by Ánima Films and Netflix (2019).
Researcher and journalist in chapter México-USA of documentary series Después de la Guerra, by Muzungu-teleSUR (2019).
Researcher and Producer Assistant in Mexico and Argentina for some products of All Rise Films -http://allrisefilms.com-, 2019.
Producer, researcher and assistant in works for for teleSUR, Red Fish, Al Jazeera and Canal Encuentro.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2023. Second place in the Breach-Valdez Award in journalism and human rights, for the work The first trial for DNA trafficking in Mexico.
2022. Second place in the Breach-Valdez Award in journalism and human rights, for the work Looking at our death, being a woman expert in Mexico.
2022. Finalist and honorable mention in the Latin American Investigative Journalism Award, awarded by Colpin-Ipys, for the work DNA Trarficckers.
2021. Mexico's National Journalism Award, reporting category for the work DNA traffickers.
2021 Pulitzer-Rainforest Fund Fellow, teaming with Soledad Barruti and Miguel Tovar, for investigative journalism.
2021. Fellow of the UNESCO Pilot Program to Support Investigative Journalism, in team with Miguel Tovar and Wendy Selene Pérez.
2019. Mexico's National Journalism Award, chronicle category for the work Forensic laborers. Chronicle of a new profession in a country of graves
Mexico’s correspondent for the public Ecuatorian newspaper El Telégrafo
(2014-2017).
Journalist in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada (2012-2015)
Mexico’s correspondent for the public southamerican Channel TeleSUR (May 2012
to June 2014).
Coordinator of writers and writer in the multimedia web site of TeleSUR (January
to May 2012 and 2009-2012)
Journalist and auxiliar in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. Sections World
(2004-2007), Gastronomy (2007-2008), Sports (2006-2011).
Writer of short news in the web site of Mexican newspaper La Jornada. Sections
World; Society and Justice; Science and Health; Migrations (2005-2006).
Graduate of Social Comunication, specialized in research and planning.
Universidad Nacional de CЧrdoba, Argentina, 2003.
Postgraduate in Human Rights for journalists. Universidad Iberoamericana, MОxico,
2006.