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Head of Communications, REDRESS, London, UK, 4/2017-present
Responsible for devising and implementing communications strategies that support strategic litigation and policy advocacy at REDRESS, and organisation that seeks justice and reparations for survivors of torture, challenges impunity for perpetrators, and advocates for legal and policy reforms to combat torture. Responsible for managing the annual content plant, including publications; writing engaging content for print, digital and multimedia materials; media outreach; media and social media monitoring.

Communications Officer, REDRESS, London, UK, 7/2011- 3/2017
Similar responsibilities as above.

Casual Producer, BBC MUNDO, London, UK, 5/2016 – 2/2017
Wrote breaking news and feature stories, and sub-edited articles for BBC Mundo, the online BBC’s service for the Spanish-speaking world.

Freelancer, Financial Times, London, UK, 8/2010 – 9/2013
Contributed features for the Financial Times Magazine’s “First Person” section.

Journalism trainer, Migrants Resource Centre, London, UK, 10/2011 – 11/2012
Trained refugees, migrants and asylum seekers on print and digital journalism as part of Media4us, a European-wide project seeking to get their stories published in mainstream media. The stories were published in a 4-page insert of the UK’s Metro newspaper in 2012, and featured in The Guardian.

Metro Editor, El Diario-La Prensa, New York City, U.S., 1/2007 – 7/2010
Oversaw daily coverage of local, national and major international stories for the largest Spanish-language newspaper in New York, and with over a quarter million daily readers, the third largest in the United States. Managed a team of 12 full-time journalists in New York and New Jersey, as well as correspondents and freelancers in Latin America. Worked to integrate El Diario’s multimedia, online and print journalist teams and work flow. Oversaw several award-winning multimedia projects, including Latino Vote, a two-year effort to cover the 2008 presidential election from several states, and Dirty Work: Hispanic Immigrants Clean the Gulf on the impact of BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, from the perspective of Hispanic clean-up workers. Produced myself the award-winning multimedia projects War in the Honduran Forests, which documented how U.S. and European demand for cheap wood fuelled illegal logging, corruption and violence in Honduras, and its impact on the livelihoods of peasants and indigenous communities, and Bushwick is dying, on the impact of the 2010 US foreclosure crisis on minority communities. These projects included video, podcasts, slideshows, and interactive graphics.

New York City Hall Bureau correspondent, New York City, U.S., 1/2005- 12/2006
Responsible for daily coverage of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the New York City Council, New York Senate and Assembly. Reported special coverage from Latin America.

Metro reporter, El Diario-La Prensa, New York City, U.S., 8/2002 – 12/2004
Covered stories related to the Hispanic/Latin American communities and other minorities in the U.S., with a focus on social justice and human rights issues. Covered the presidential election of 2004 and the UN General Assembly.

Adjunct professor, New York University, New York, U.S., 1/2004 – 5/2004
Taught the graduate course “Covering Latino and Caribbean Stories in the U.S.”

EDUCATION
Joint M.A. in Journalism and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 2003.
B.A. in Journalism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1995.
Post-graduate Diploma in Environmental Journalism, Universal Politécnica de Madrid, 1995.

FELLOWSHIPS

  • New America Media/Open Society Institute Stimulus Watch Fellowship, San Francisco, U.S., 2009.
  • International Reporting Project Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., 2006.
  • La Caixa’s Foundation’s Fellowship, Barcelona, Spain, 2000-2002.

AWARDS

  • Guillermo Martínez Márquez Award for best Latin American reporting (National Association of Hispanic Journalists, NAHJ), 2008.
  • Félix Varela Award finalist (Al Día Foundation), 2008.
  • Honorable Mention Ippies Awards for best Investigative Story (New York City Community Media Alliance), 2008.
  • First place, Political Article for ‘Victims of the eco-mafia’ (National Association of Hispanic Publications, NAHP), 2008.
  • First place, Political Article for ‘Minorities in the U.S. Army’ (NAHP), 2007.
  • First place, Outstanding Multiple Article Series, ‘The Imprisoned Vote’ (NAHP), 2005.First place, Outstanding Entertainment Article, ‘The Hispanic TV networks in the closet’ (NAHP), 2004 and Outstanding Newspaper Article nomination by GLAAD (GLAAD Annual Media Awards, 2005).
  • Second Place, Outstanding Multiple Article Series for ‘Dogs to Torture Detainees’ (NAHP, 2005).