Annie Burns-Pieper
Annie is a senior researcher for Inclusive Development International (IDI) based in Montreal. Before this role, she worked for ten years as an investigative reporter in Canada and internationally. Her past work includes stories on Indigenous water rights, sexual violence on public transit, maternity care, physician over billing, hospital suicide, tax havens and pipelines.
Claudia Báez
Claudia is the co-founder and managing director of Cuestión Pública. She has led projects that have won the King of Spain, Sigma Awards, SIP, WAN-IFRA Latam and TRACE for Investigative Reporting, among others.
David Tarazona
Colombian investigative journalist since 2012, David is co-founder and co-director of Cuestión Pública. He was a former editor at Mongabay LATAM, where he participated in environmental investigations and the award-winning #Narcofiles.
Dora Montero
Dora is the Vice President of Consejo de Redacción, a Colombian journalist and an Investigative journalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience working in different national media and covering regional issues in Colombia.
Dustin Roasa
Dustin is research director at Inclusive Development International (IDI). He joined the organisation in 2016 to help design and launch the Follow the Money initiative, an innovative approach to corporate accountability.
Gloria Pallarès
Gloria is an independent journalist focused on the environment and global development, and has published in media such as El País, Mongabay and Devex. Her work in the Congo Basin, supported by the Pulitzer Center, has exposed cases of illegal logging and mining and weaknesses in the governance of carbon projects in a total area equivalent to the size of Costa Rica.
Grisha Vera
Member of the Editorial Board of CONNECTAS and its Hub, Grisha was the coordinator and reporter for the investigative team of El Pitazo de Venezuela. Apart from training on how to cover climate finance and environmental crimes in the Amazon for Planeta CONNECTAS, Grisha has also conducted investigations on monitoring public resources and violating children's rights.
Gustavo Faleiros
Gustavo is an environmental research editor for the Pulitzer Center's Tropical Forest Research Network (RIN). Based in São Paulo, Brazil, he is an environmental journalist and media trainer specializing in data-driven reporting.
Laura Sofía Mejía
A social communicator and journalist by profession with a master's degree in direction and project management from OBS and the University of Barcelona, Laura is Co-founder and Director of Baudó Public Agency.
Maximiliano Manzoni
Maximiliano is an Uruguayan journalist specialising in climate change and a member of #CONNECTASHub. He is a Gabo Prize winner and an alumnus of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. He investigates climate disinformation in Latin America for Periodistas por el Planeta and Climate Tracker.
Tais Gadea Lara
Tais Gadea Lara is a climate journalist from Argentina. Since 2014 she has been covering the climate negotiations and international politics. In 2024 she was a Climate Explorer at the Constructive Institute (Denmark) working on a global project to help journalists improve climate reporting.