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María Magdalena Arréllaga
María Magdalena Arréllaga is an independent Paraguayan American photographer and visual storyteller based in Brazil. Arréllaga works on assignments and projects related to social, gender, political, and environmental issues in Latin America. Her personal work is centered on stories and projects that delve into responses to social and environmental issues of our time through a humanistic lens. When she is not working, she is likely climbing in the mountains.
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Yunuen Bonaparte is a New York City–based independent photo editor with a passion for visual storytelling. She currently edits photos for the online platforms Palabra and Narratively. Her photojournalism has appeared in esteemed publications including the Washington Post, the Hechinger Report, Al Día News, El Universal, and Americas Quarterly, among others. Originally from Mexico, Bonaparte brings her unique perspective as an immigrant to her work, enhancing each story she helps to tell.
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Jess Deeks is an Ottawa, Ontario–based photographer specializing in portraits for commercial and editorial clients. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. She loves collaborating on projects related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, the arts, and the human condition. In her spare time, she likes to skateboard, hang out with ducks, and listen to podcasts like We Can Do Hard Things and On Being.
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Luis Manuel Diaz is a Mexican-born visual artist working with photography. Drawing from personal and communal history, his practice examines the postmigration home, citizenship, and labor. Diaz is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, where he’s a candidate for an MFA in photography at the Yale School of Art.
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Elisa Ferrari is an Argentine American visual storyteller based in Los Angeles. She is a National Geographic Explorer and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied liberal arts and ethnomusicology. Ferrari is an alumna of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII and a member of Authority Collective, Diversify Photo, and Women Photograph.
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Luisa Forain is a Brazilian freelance translator and biologist based in Rio de Janeiro. She has a background in native Atlantic Forest seedling production and reforestation. She currently works primarily on translating scientific articles and science journalism. She also volunteers as a humanitarian linguist with Translators Without Borders for various NGOs in the areas of crisis relief, health, and education. Her true bliss is to be surrounded by animals and nature.
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Yessenia Funes is a queer Latina independent environmental journalist based in New York City. She’s currently editor at large for Atmos, an independent climate magazine. Her writing has appeared in Vox, the Guardian, Scientific American, Vogue, Yale Climate Connections, and more.
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Fernando Gomollón Bel is a Spanish chemist and science communicator. He is cofounder of Agata Communications, a company that specializes in science communication and dissemination. He works as a freelance writer for several publications and scientific societies, including Chemistry World and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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Roberto González is a freelance science journalist based in Mexico City. He focuses on writing about Latin America and the Caribbean and the intersection of science, health, and environmental rights. His work has been featured in Science, New Scientist, Eos, and SciDev.Net, among others. He loves getting around the city on his fixie, especially when he’s riding to a coffee shop.
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Jodi Hilton is a freelance photographer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, notably the New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and National Geographic. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Her personal and volunteer work is focused on migration and marginalized racial and ethnic communities.
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Matías A. Loewy is a freelance science journalist and former chemistry teacher based in Buenos Aires. He has covered science and health topics for around 30 years. He was previously editor for science and medicine in the Argentine weekly newsmagazine Noticias and senior editor of Newsweek Argentina. He is an external editor for the science news organization National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion Argentina–Leloir Institute and contributor to the dissemination unit of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy. His work has been featured in Medscape, CNN Interactive, Reuters Health, Knowable Magazine, La Nación, Infobae, and Forbes Argentina, among other outlets. In 2017, he received a Konex Award as one of the five most outstanding Argentine science journalists of the decade. He is the author of Inmortalidad, a book about research into longevity and “eternal life.” Unfortunately, he doesn’t think that he will be able to achieve the latter.
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Alejandra Manjarrez is a freelance science journalist based (mostly) in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in Drug Discovery News, Science, Scientific American, and the Atlantic, among others.
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Tamara Merino, based in Chile, is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller who focuses on subterranean communities, identity, human rights, the environment, and climate change. Merino’s work has been featured in numerous publications globally, including National Geographic, the New York Times, and Time magazine. Merino was honored as one of the National Geographic Society’s 2020 Emerging Explorers and received the Magnum Foundation’s 2020 Inge Morath Award. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide.
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Manny I. Fox Morone is a senior editor at C&EN and has been for a while. He co-led the 2024 Trailblazers project and normally develops and edits freelance reporters’ stories about the molecular world. Morone was born in Argentina, grew up in Illinois, and currently is withering away in Washington, DC. He likes pickling vegetables.
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Ximena Natera is a photojournalist who was born and raised in Mexico City and is currently based in Oakland, California. Themes of resilience and collective memory guide her work. She graduated from the International Center of Photography and the School of Journalism Carlos Septién García, and she has been a fellow of the García Márquez Foundation and the International Women’s Media Foundation.
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Carlos Osorio is an award-winning Salvadoran Canadian photographer who spent over 13 years with the Toronto Star. As part of a team at Reuters, he was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for work covering the climate crisis. He has reported on the drug trade and the opioid crisis across North America, children trying to escape violence in El Salvador, and refugees and other marginalized communities in Toronto.
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Lauren Petracca is a freelance photojournalist based in Rochester, New York, who works with editorial and nonprofit clients. She uses photography to examine the fragile relationship between people and the environment and how climate change and environmental practices affect culture, daily life, and mental health. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Associated Press coverage, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Mother Jones. Some of the nonprofits she has partnered with include Earthjustice, the Southern Environmental Law Center, AARP, and Songwriting With: Soldiers.
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Eddie Quinones is a freelance photographer based in Chicago and northwest Indiana. He has a BA in international studies from the Ohio State University and later studied photojournalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. When he’s not wandering around with his camera, you can find him listening to podcasts or AM talk radio and/or drinking strong, black coffee.
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Alejandra Rajal is a Mexican freelance documentary photographer. She is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo. Her work focuses on trying to understand how humans connect with the world we live in and the complexities surrounding belief systems in stories of climate change, drugs, gender, religion, and violence. Rajal has been awarded fellowships from the International Women’s Media Foundation, National Geographic Society, and Fujifilm, and she collaborates regularly with media outlets across the Americas and Europe.
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Bec Roldan is a multimedia science journalist with an interest in all things chemistry who has written for outlets including Science and NPR.org. They have a PhD in chemistry from the University of Michigan.
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Malena Beatriz Stariolo is a São Paulo–based science journalist and a 2023 EurekAlert! fellow. She reports for Jornal da Unesp on research carried out at São Paulo State University, writing about physics, paleontology, chemistry, and artificial intelligence. Her main topics of interest are environmental subjects and climate change, with a focus on the social aspect. In her previous role as scientific communication coordinator at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), she developed podcasts, videos, and multimedia projects exploring the world of physics.
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Sara Stathas is a commercial and editorial photographer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has spent over 20 years creating portraits to accompany human interest stories for a range of clients, including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Time magazine, as well as advertising work for brands such as US Bank and ZipRecruiter.
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Karen Toro is a freelance documentary photographer and visual journalist. Her work explores themes of human rights, social justice, environmental issues, education, and gender. Toro is a regular contributor for Reuters, Bloomberg, and El País. She has also worked with Amnesty International, United Nations Women, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Amazon Watch, and Amazon Frontlines, among others. Her work has been exhibited in countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, the UK, Chile, and Ecuador.
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César A. Urbina Blanco is a Venezuelan chemist and consultant who works for Prophecy Labs, a company at the intersection of artificial intelligence, information technologies, and green chemistry. He’s also a great advocate for science communication as well as diversity and equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions.
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Laura Vargas-Parada is a freelance science writer based in Mexico City. A graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she mainly writes on biomedicine but also covers the environment, technology, and other science topics. Her work has been published in Nature, El Economista (Mexico), and La Crónica de Hoy.
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Krystal Vasquez is an associate editor and science policy reporter at C&EN. Vasquez co-led this year’s Trailblazers project. She also covers a variety of news topics ranging from environmental policy to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science.
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Andrés Velásquez-Güechá is a freelance journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. Using short stories and nontraditional video interviews, Velásquez-Güechá merges science, literature, and media to create novel communication articles and videos. His interviews can be found at the YouTube channel of the Colombian Professional Council of Chemistry. In his spare time, he likes to read, write, and play tennis.
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Myriam Vidal Valero is a freelance reporter and is based in Mexico City and New York City. Vidal writes about general science, health care, and the environment. Her work has appeared in Nature, Inside Climate News, Slate, the New York Times, and Cancer World, among others.
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