Eva Sanchis is a former International Reporting Project fellow in Washington, D.C., and a winner of the Guillermo Martínez-Márquez Award for Best Latin American reporting.

She was the Metro news editor of El Diario-La Prensa, New York’s largest Spanish language newspaper, where she oversaw daily coverage of local, national and major international stories.

She was previously its New York City Hall Bureau Chief, covering Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.

Eva has reported on human rights and social justice issues from the U.S., Central America, the Caribbean and Europe.

As an International Reporting Project fellow based in Washington, D.C., she won the Guillermo Martínez-Márquez Award for Best Latin American Reporting for an investigative series, War in the Honduran Forests, which documented how the U.S. and European demand for cheap wood fuelled illegal logging and violence in Honduras, and its impact on the livelihoods of peasants and indigenous communities.

After relocating to London in 2011, Eva has been a journalist trainer and mentor for migrants and journalists in exile in the UK, helping them re-start their careers, as part of a pioneering project led by the Migrants Resource Centre and the London College of Communications.

She is currently the Head of Communications of REDRESS, an international human rights organisation based in London that seeks justice for survivors of torture, challenges impunity for perpetrators and advocates for legal and policy reforms to combat torture and provide effective reparations.

In London, she has also worked as a freelance reporter, contributing features for the Financial Times Magazine, and BBC Mundo, the BBC’s Spanish language service.