María Alejandra Gonzales

María Alejandra Gonzales is a journalist with a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences and arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She has experience in investigative journalism, politics reporting, and data analysis, with a focus on human rights, gender, and the environment. 

She is a journalist at Convoca and has worked at Salud con Lupa and Infobae Perú. Her work combines field reporting, interviews, access to public information, and database analysis. At Salud con Lupa, she participated in the creation and development of “Data Pública,” a section dedicated to promoting access to public information through guides and explanatory content. At Convoca.pe, she has participated in cross-border investigations and multimedia projects such as “Bajo el Cielo Tóxico,” an interactive comic about mining pollution in Cerro de Pasco. 

Gonzales worked on an investigation into the economic and political interests surrounding the proposed Pucallpa–Cruzeiro do Sul highway and the overlap of mining rights with areas of illegal mining in the Abujao basin, as part of the investigative series Dorada Opacidad II, with support from the Pulitzer Center.