Gisella A. Rojas

27-year-old Latin American journalist with a Journalism degree and minor in Political Science from Casa Grande University in Ecuador. Following graduation, I was granted a scholarship to study investigative journalism in Mexico. During that time I won the mobile journalism competition award offered by the Thomson Foundation, which took me to Ireland and later to London, where I received training in multimedia and mobile journalism. On the final week of the Thomson Foundation summer course, every student had a week of work placement within a UK organization. In my case, I went to the newspaper The Guardian, where I had the chance to explore how they work in different departments like multimedia, social development, international affairs, and others. At the end of 2018, I received half of a scholarship to do a master's degree in investigation and data journalism in Spain, where I had the opportunity to work at El Mundo and Expansion, both Spanish newspapers.