Valeria Fernández

Valeria Fernández is the founder of Altavoz Lab, a mentorship program designed to produce collaborative projects to strengthen reporters at community outlets that serve Black, Indigenous, immigrant and other communities of color in the U.S. As a journalist, filmmaker, and producer, Fernández amplifies the stories of marginalized communities. Valeria won the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for her reporting on marginalized communities in 2018. She is the managing editor for palabra., a publication created by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists to support freelance reporters.