Catalina Olate is a journalist with a degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She worked as a reporter for FactChecking.cl in partnership with 24 Horas verifying the 2021 presidential elections and the Constitutional plebiscite. She has collaborated with El Mostrador and in 2022 was a finalist for the Premio Periodismo de Excelencia de
Layla Yammine is a journalist and researcher based in Beirut, Lebanon. She is a staff journalist at The Public Source, where she reports on the public sector, political affairs, and social justice-related issues. She holds a degree in media studies from the Lebanese University.
Muhammad Iftikhar Khan is a Peshawar-based, award-winning, multimedia journalist. He holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from University of Peshawar and has worked with many news organizations since 2010. Khan is actively engaged in the reporting and editing of text and visual stories from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He has covered various news beats including climate change,
Franklin Villavicencio is a Nicaraguan journalist with experience writing for print, digital and TV. He has worked for La Prensa Literaria, Revista Niú, Confidencial, Revista Factum and others. In 2021 he joined Divergentes, where he has produced three seasons of its podcast and multiple multimedia stories. In 2022 he was awarded the Ortega y Gasset
Kellys Portillo is a Salvadoran photojournalist focused on telling stories about gender, environment and indigenous issues. Her photographs have been part of the ESFOTO 2022 selection, a Latin American photojournalism festival that compiles the best images of the region. She is currently the photojournalist for the feminist digital media, Alharaca.
Lilia Balam is an investigative journalist and photojournalist. She has collaborated with media outlets such as Die Zeit, Gatopardo, Coolt, Volcánicas, Distintas Latitudes, Sin Embargo, Pie de Página and Memorias de Nómada, covering human rights, gender, health and environmental issues. She belongs to the fifth generation of the Latin American Network of Young Journalists (#RedLATAM),
Koena Evelyn Mashale is a journalist with a degree from Tshwane University of Technology and currently participating in an advanced program at the same institution. She has experience working for local publications in Johannesburg. Her focus at Sowetan will be on immigration.
Vaishnavi is a climate and land reporter with Scroll.in. Prior to that, between 2019 and 2022 she worked as an environment lead with The Bastion, a development journalism portal based in India. Here, she took lead on environment analysis and ground reports around land, rivers, forests, and climate in rural and urban India. Vaishnavi is
Ghiovani Hinojosa Navarro is a Peruvian journalist with more than a decade of experience. He has worked for local media like Hildebrandt en sus trece and La República. In 2012, he won the National Journalism Award Juan Landázuri Ricketts in the category of print journalism. He has a Masters in investigative journalism from the Universidad
Violeta Santiago is a journalist with experience in daily news coverage, narrative and investigative reporting. She is focused on human rights, violence and environmental issues. Prior to becoming a Report for the World corps member, she worked and collaborated with several media outlets like Aristegui Noticias, Gatopardo, El País, Vice News and Corriente Alterna. She’s