Our Team

Iván Carrillo

Iván Carrillo

General editor

@carrillazo

Iván Carrillo (CDMX, 1970). Journalist, editor and TV host specialized in science, health and the environment. He is co-founder and co-director of Historias sin Fronteras and En Común (podcast). He is a member of the 2016-17 generation of the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and is part of the National Geographic Society's global community of Explorers. As well, Ivan is the general editor of the Tec Review platform specialized in science, innovation and entrepreneurship and is the head of the Ibero-American Scientific and Cultural News (NCC) that is broadcast in 20 countries and three languages. Recently he launched the Aquatic Atlas program on YouTube dedicated to the conservation of the oceans. He has collaborated with the most important national media and his reports in Natgeo (LA) and Newsweek en Español have been recognized with the most outstanding awards in Mexico.

Lynne Walker

Lynne Walker

InquireFirst

@InquireFirst

S. Lynne Walker is the president and executive director of InquireFirst and co-founder of Historias sin Fronteras, which was established in 2019 to provide reporting grants to science, health and environment writers in Latin America.

Lynne is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who spent much of her career reporting from Mexico, where she served as Mexico City Bureau Chief from 1992 to 2008 for San Diego, Calif.-based Copley News Service.

Her four-part series on a small Illinois town transformed by immigration, “Beardstown: Reflection of a Changing America,” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. She was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2005 for her outstanding coverage of Latin America.

As executive director of InquireFirst, which she founded in 2016, Lynne continues to travel to Latin America to work with colleagues on new ways to produce in-depth reporting on science, health and the environment and conduct investigative reporting. She has instructed Spanish-language journalism workshops in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador.

Lynne also launched Bajo la Lupa, a grant program to support investigative reporting in Latin America and she is the co-founder of En Común: Conocimiento en Voz Viva, a Spanish-language radio program that reports on science, health and the environment for rural and indigenous audiences in Mexico.

Alejandro Saldívar

Alejandro Saldívar

Alejandro Saldívar is a reporter and audio-visual narrator for Proceso magazine in Mexico City. He is also co-founder of Late magazine. Since 2017 he has been a professor on the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Daniel Wizenberg

Daniel Wizenberg

Daniel Wizenberg is an Argentine journalist, co-founder and editor of Late, an international nonprofit journalism network. Daniel has worked as a researcher for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and Survival International. He has received fellowships from the Pulitzer Center and the International Center for Journalists. Daniel is also the author of two books that combine personal narratives and international politics: "Those Who Wait: Chronicles of Refugees and Migrants" and "Korea: Two Extreme Faces." He is currently working for the European Journalism Fund on the impact of European investigative journalism projects.



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Photos:
Alejandro Saldívar y Pablo Linietsky
Translation to English:
Jessica X. Valenzuela
Translation to Portuguese:
Jerusa Rodrigues
Web design:
Miguel Ángel Garnica