Jéssica Maes

Jéssica Maes is a 31-year-old Brazilian journalist working as a reporter and podcast producer at Folha de S.Paulo since January 2020.

As an environment reporter, her daily work focuses on deforestation, climate change, national and global public policies, sanitation and other urban environmental issues.

For three years, Jéssica produced Folha's daily news podcast Café da Manhã. She assisted in interviews and revised the show's scripts while supervising episodes on themes such as health, science, and the environment and reporting on special episodes that often focused on these themes.

In 2020, she received $50,000 in funding from Serrapilheira Institute to produce the podcast Habitat. Besides idealizing the project and being one of the hosts, she did the show's research, production, reporting, scripting, and fact-checking.

In 2021, Jéssica attended COP26, the United Nations climate conference, as one of 20 journalists worldwide to receive the Climate Change Media Reporting Partnership Fellowship from the Earth Journalism Network.

Jéssica is also a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a program of the Reuters Institute at Oxford University that aims to help journalists develop their coverage of climate change.

Previously, she worked as a freelance reporter in media vehicles such as UOL, Metro and Gazeta do Povo. Jéssica has a BA in Journalism from UFPR (Universidade Federal do Paraná).