Carolina  Pichardo Hernández

Carolina Pichardo Hernández is an award-winning reporter and the investigative editor at the oldest and most important newspaper in the Dominican Republic, Listin Diario. She studied Social Communications in the Dominican Republic, where she graduated with the highest score of her class. In 2020, she was awarded with Chevening, a UK government's global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). In 2022, she graduated with merit from a Master's Degree in Investigative Reporting at Birkbeck, University of London. As part of her journey, she was chosen for a placement at the Chevening/ BBC World Service to work for three months in BBC Mundo, where she published stories about migration, culture and race in Latin America.

In May 2019, she got a first place in the Youth Journalism Award by the National Book Fair for the series of articles “Children of the heart”, she was chosen as a finalist in a World Vision contest for the same feature.

In 2020, she got the second place and an honorable mention in the Rafael Herrera's Journalism Award from the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode).

In November 2022, she published a-five-page investigation with Connectas and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) that spotlights the irregular and overpriced protocols in visas issued by Haiti consulates, which evade the Dominican government’s regulations.

In 2022, she was also awarded with the Grand Prize for the Environmental journalistic award for her series of articles about endangered species.