Year
2019
Location
San Salvador, El Salvador
Amount
$20,000
Jessica Ávalos (b. 1985; born and lives in El Salvador) is a journalist whose writing focuses on access to justice, human rights, and victims of violence, and whose goal is to develop a practice of constructive journalism.
Ávalos received a fellowship from the Columbia University School of Journalism (2017) to study investigative reporting, a grant from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (2009), and a grant for work in Mexico from the International Women’s Media Foundation (2016). She has a degree in Social Communication from Central American University in El Salvador.
Term
January 2019–July 2020