I am a Mexican journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Rest of World, Worcester Magazine, The Haitian Times, The New Yorker, Letras Libres, Gatopardo, Ríodoce, Este País and Pie de Página, among others.
In 2018, I received a Magic Grant from The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, to create an archive that preserves and catalogues the work of killed journalists in Mexico, which I launched in 2019. By 2021, the project became a nonprofit, Defensores de la Democracia (DDLD) that I now lead. DDLD creates a space for remembrance and produces new narratives (a living archive and a podcast, so far) about the ubiquitous crisis of violence against reporters in Mexico.
Through the coverage and research of freedom of expression, I covered the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera in New York. My first book is a narrative of the three-month trial. My second book is a reported-essay collection, the product of 5+ years reading and analyzing the work of killed colleagues. It explores the reason so many reporters are killed in Mexico.
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Education & Acknowledgements
I hold a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.
And have a B.A. Political Science from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where I graduated with honors after writing a thesis on the impact social media and criminal organizations have on attacks to the press.
Selected as one of 12 Dart Ochberg Fellows by The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (2023).
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as part of a Washington Post team for a series about fentanyl (2023).
Finalist in the Premio Nacional de Periodismo México for a series investigating institutional failures faced by families of killed and disappeared journalists (2022).
Selected for the 10-people cohort for the Doing Things with Stories remote residency by Oxfam and the Artez University in the Netherlands (2021).
Finalist in the Premio Gabo as the director and host of the Voces Silenciadas podcast first season (2021).
Received one of UNESCO’s Programa de Apoyo al Periodismo de Investigación grants (2021).
One of 12 awardees of a Magic Grant from The Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2018).
Finalist in the feature writing (crónica) international contest Nuevas Plumas (2017).
Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism fellow (2016-2017).
Maria Moors Cabot Scholar (2016-2017).
Conacyt-FUNED Scholar (2016-2017).
Selected as one of the 10 most promising young writers by Agencia Bengala for the Balas y Baladas mashup (2014).
