Hello!
I'm a Mexico City-based trilingual reporter, audio producer and fact-checker covering science, health, environment and policy decisions. I’m passionate about exploring the intersection between society and science. Latin America is my favorite region to write about. I report in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
My work has been published in Nature, Science, Scientific American, Undark, The Verge, WWF, and elsewhere. I also have experience tinkering with Canon cameras to shoot video and take photos.
In 2018, I was the *first ever* Health & Science intern for the Associated Press. I’ve been an editorial intern at Radio Ambulante, NPR’s only Spanish-language podcast. Between 2021 and 2022, I worked as story coordinator of Las Raras, a documentary podcast that covers non-fiction stories from different parts of the world.
Oh, I’m also a graduate of New York University’s Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program.
Selected work
Photo by Janice Bryson
A story I covered for TV UNAM's Simbiosis about ancient farming practices in modern Mexico
2016 Logan Science Journalism Fellowship | Photo by Tom Kleindinst
My piece about Mexico City's air pollution for TV UNAM's Simbiosis
Reporting a story in Placencia, Belize | Photo by Antonio Busiello
Preparing to photograph a fish at the New York Aquarium during an assignment for the Associated Press | Photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP
Associated Press
Telltale bits of DNA help track past and elusive wildlife
With photos and video
August 30, 2018
Kidneys infected with hepatitis C can help patients skip the yearslong transplant waiting list
August 6, 2018
The Green Big Apple: New Yorkers document the city's plants
With photos
August 3, 2018
Water is buried beneath Martian landscape, study says
July 25, 2018
TravelLab: Adults take over science museum when the night falls
With photos and video
July 16, 2018
Ancient 'Iceman' shows signs of a well-balanced last meal
July 12, 2018
AP Explains: a closer look to Guatemala's Volcano of Fire
June 4, 2018
Chilango
El Cementerio de los Leones
Originally published in Spanish/ With Ignacio Rodríguez Reyna
August 12, 2018
Emeequis
La depresión después del Prozac
Originally published in Spanish
February 22, 2016
Nature: the silent victim of Colombia's armed conflict
July 27, 2017
Nature
How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America
A feature on how ideas about race infiltrated genetics research in the region.
December 13, 2021
Chilean researchers unhappy following investigation of star neuroscientist
October 13, 2021
Latin America’s embrace of unproven COVID treatment hinders drug trials
October 20, 2020
‘Apocalyptic’ fires are ravaging the world’s largest tropical wetland
September 25, 2020
Second Brazilian museum fire in two years reignites calls for reform
July 1, 2020
Latin American scientists join the coronavirus vaccine race
June 12, 2020
The scientist battling the addiction crisis
A profile of Nora Volkow, director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse.
April 1, 2020
What the protests and violence in Chile mean for science
November 11, 2019
‘Mosaic’ HIV vaccine to be tested in thousands of people across the world
July 31, 2019
After the Flames: The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno
A feature on Rio de Janeiro’s Museu Nacional. With photos.
July 16, 2019
‘I was dying of shame’: Mexican science faces its #MeToo moment
June 26, 2019
Mexican ecologists push to transform prison island into nature reserve
April 11, 2019
Violent drug cartels stifle Mexican science
February 12, 2019
Science
Chile’s Indigenous peoples seek fairer partnerships with scientists
June 7, 2022
When professional becomes personal
An investigative feature on a series of sexual harassment complaints in Mexican academia.
September 30, 2021
Massive fraud investigation targets prominent Brazilian health researcher
September 1, 2020
Financial crisis looms at Brazilian science agency
August 19, 2019
Plans for a research powerhouse in the Andes begin to unravel
July 21, 2017
Cocaine trafficking is destroying Central America’s forests
June 16, 2017
Argentina’s scientists engulfed in budget crisis
November 16, 2016
Fighting wildlife smuggling, one DNA test at a time
August 26, 2015
Mapping Mexico's deadly drug war
June 30, 2015
Scienceline
This HIV-prevention drug is often not prescribed to those who need it most
April 18, 2018
Are pets good or bad for your child’s allergies?
January 31, 2018
A Brazilian city is using DNA to combat the ancient scourge of rats
November 14, 2017
Changes in Ecuador’s ‘seed law’ angers and frustrates scientists
November 13, 2017
Scientific American
What can a post-Roe U.S. learn from Latin America’s abortion laws?
January 4, 2022
From fog of war to flames of peace — wildfires surge in post-FARC Colombia
November 26, 2018
Small farmers in Mexico keep corn’s genetic diversity alive
November 19, 2018
Amazon gold rush continues to destroy Peru’s rain forest
November 17, 2017
Oil spills stain Peruvian Amazon
March 4, 2016
¿Las áreas protegidas realmente mantienen a salvo nuestros bosques?
Originally published in Spanish
May 11, 2016
The Verge
Burned areas of the Amazon could take centuries to fully recover
September 10, 2019
WWF
Guardians of the Reef
April 15, 2016
Undark
A rollback of DACA would undercut American science, too
January 29, 2018
Contact me
Got a tip or a story idea? Send me a message or email me at mega.fciencias@gmail.com
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