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Karla Gachet
Karla Gachet is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller with over fifteen years of experience documenting Latin America. Her work focuses on culture, territory, indigenous rights, and environmental issues. Gachet has been published in prominent media outlets, including National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post. Her work has been awarded in prestigious competitions such as World Press Photo, POY, and POYi Latin America. In 2023, she received a National Geographic Explorer grant to lead a group project about cumbia in Latin America. In addition to her documentary work, Gachet is an editor to other colleagues and a mentor to up-and-coming photographers. She is part of Ayün Fotógrafas, a collective of women visual storytellers connected to Latin America. For the past 9 years, she has documented Latinx and Native American communities in the United States.
Eduardo García
Eduardo García established Bloomberg’s Mexico bureau in 1992 and served as its leader until 2001, overseeing the agency’s award-winning coverage in the country. In 2001, he embarked on a new venture by founding his own news organization, Sentido Común. For nearly 18 years, he guided Sentido Común to become one of Mexico's most esteemed financial websites. Later, he merged his company with the local financial news agency Infosel, assuming roles as editor-in-chief and subsequently Chief Content Officer.
MICHELLE GARCÍA
Michelle García is a journalist and essayist and recent Soros Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations. This essay was adapted from her article in the forthcoming academic anthology, Democracy on the Line: Trumpism and the Latino Predicament. García is working on a non-fiction book about borders. Twitter: pistoleraprod
OSCAR GARCÍA
Oscar García is an editor at the Nuestro Diario newspaper in Guatemala City. He is a graduate of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala, and a former professor of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Mariano Gálvez University. Three decades ago, he started out as an editor and reporter at the Guatemala Flash radio newspaper and the Diario Al Día newspaper.
TARA GARCÍA MATHEWSON
Tara García Mathewson is a reporter covering inequality and innovation in K-12 education, nationally, and she oversees coverage for Hechinger en Español as the languages editor. She has been writing about education since 2012, first for the Daily Herald in Chicago’s northwest suburbs and then as a freelancer until she joined The Hechinger Report in 2017, where she has focused on the “Future of Learning” and educational inequalities. García Mathewson has won awards for beat reporting and her investigations into the educational technology industry, among other topics. Her work has appeared in a variety of regional and national news outlets, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
EDDIE GASPAR
Eddie Gaspar, a native of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, is an associate photo editor and photojournalist at The Texas Tribune, a role they took on after working as the Tribune’s photography fellow for two semesters. Previously, they have served as Photo Editor and Chief Photographer at The Daily Texan, Multimedia Intern at KUT/X and Visual Content and Photo Editor at Texas Student Television’s “Austin Underground.” Eddie is a senior at The University of Texas at Austin and is fluent in Spanish. Photo credit: Brenda Bazán.
Amanda Geduld
Amanda Geduld is a staff reporter at The 74. She joined the site after reporting internships at The Maine Monitor and The Miami Herald, where she covered book bans, homeschooling regulations, the substitute teacher shortage, stagnant teacher salaries and private for-profit universities.
Andrea Godínez
Andrea Godínez is a Guatemalan social communicator with a seven-year career devoted to photojournalism and the production of journalistic content, focusing on issues such as migration, poverty and social inequality. She studied communication sciences at Rafael Landívar University.
BRANDON GOMEZ
is a segment producer and digital contributor at CNBC. He was named the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ “Next Generation Journalist of the Year” in 2017. He is a member of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and has covered the push for diversity in small businesses, financial literacy, and how business can better serve underrepresented communities.
Damaly Gonzalez
Damaly Gonzalez is a Brooklynite, Williamsburg-native of Puerto Rican descent. She is a freelance identity and culture journalist who writes about music, art and social justice issues through a critical and analytical lens. Her work mainly focuses on latinidad, memory and displacement. She has been published in Rolling Stone, ARTNews, The Latinx Project, Nonprofit Quarterly and others.
ERICA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍNEZ
is the daughter of parents from Río Piedras and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. She served as the Opinion Page Editor and then Executive Editor of El Diario/La Prensa in New York. She is the founding editor of the Latina analysis and stories channel IDAR/E at the Women’s Media Center, and with Power 4 Puerto Rico champions changes that will help the island. Erica is a board member with City Limits magazine and the Women’s Media Center, and serves as a Aronson Journalism Awards judge.
Michael Gonzalez
Michael Gonzalez is a freelance photojournalist based in his native region of South Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border. He travels throughout the state covering stories centered on environment, immigration, and the issues that shape life on the border.
KEERTI GOPAL
Keerti Gopal is a multimedia journalist and emerging documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York, and a climate cohort fellow with the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). She graduated from Northwestern University in 2021 and moved to Taiwan for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, where she documented stories of climate action and resilience through photo, film, audio, and written media. In addition to her work with SJN, she's now a summer fellow at Inside Climate News, the editorial fellow at The Lever, and a graduate of One World Media’s Global Short Docs Forum for international filmmakers. Keerti is interested in accountability and investigative reporting, climate and environmental justice, and centering marginalized voices.
TÉMORIS GRECKO
Témoris Grecko is an award-winning political scientist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who has covered armed conflicts on every continent and has authored seven non-fiction books.
TERRY GREENE STERLING
Terry Greene Sterling’s journalism has long been informed by her family’s roots in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. A Pulitzer Center grantee, she’s a three-time Virg Hill Arizona Journalist of the Year and the Editor at Large for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Her bylines have appeared in numerous media, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, High Country News, National Journal and Daily Beast. This is her first story for palabra., and it will always be close to her heart. She’d love to chat with you on Twitter @tgsterling or via her website.
PATRICIA GUADALUPE
Raised in Puerto Rico, Patricia Guadalupe is a bilingual multimedia journalist based in Washington, D.C. She has been covering the capital for both English and Spanish-language media outlets since the mid- 1990s. She previously worked as a reporter in New York City. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and has a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. She specializes in business news, politics and cultural issues, and also freelances.
ARMANDO GUERRA
Armando Guerra (Cuba, 1975) is a documentary director and producer based in Spain. He started almost 20 years ago at CNN and has worked for CBC, PRI, Radio Havana Cuba and is a regular contributor to CGTN's documentary show Big Story. Among his films are "Für Maria", "Reinventing Cuba", "Ascending", "Unsustainable", "The Landing Strip", "Fortress Europe", "The Spanish Gate", "Made in Different Places," "Up North" and "Zero Hour". Armando also works as a consultant for the United Nations Environment Program where he produces campaigns and develops online learning content.
RUXANDRA GUIDI
Ruxandra Guidi a native of Venezuela, has reported throughout the Western Hemisphere for over 20 years. Her work has appeared on the radio shows PRX's The World and NPR’s Latino USA, and in Orion Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications. She teaches audio and freelance storytelling at the University of Arizona and collaborates regularly with husband, Bear Guerra, under the name Fonografia Collective.
Isa Gutierrez
Isa Gutierrez is an Emmy-nominated and “Forbes 30 Under 30” journalist with a passion for telling stories that have an impact on women, youth and immigrant communities. A proud Venezuelan American, Isa was the youngest national correspondent ever to report on NBC News and Noticias Telemundo. Her award-winning work as a reporter and producer has appeared on NBC News, NBCLX, WVIT, Dateline NBC and TODAY. She earned a B.Sc. in journalism with a minor in Latino studies from Northwestern University and is pursuing an Executive Master’s in marketing and strategic communications at New York University. She lives in New York City with her husband and their daughter.
Kaoly Gutierrez
Kaoly Gutierrez is a Mexican documentary photographer raised in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. She has spent most of her adult life working in construction. Without any formal art school training, she became drawn to photography in her spare time as a means of exploring people's stories and relating to the world around her. An internship in 2022-2023 provided her with invaluable insights, vocabulary and skills in the field. She primarily shoots documentary and portrait photography. For Kaoly, photographing is a natural way to facilitate interactions in her life; it is a means for both caring for herself and those around her through the attention she imbues through the lens.
KARLA GUTIERREZ
Karla Gutierrez is palabra’s first intern. She’s a fourth-year journalism student at California State University, Long Beach. She’s been a reporter for the Daily 49er, DIG en Espanol, and The Renegade Rip. She has also served as executive producer for the campus television program, Campus Connection. Her career goal is to become a broadcast producer.