Iván Carrillo (CDMX, 1970). Journalist, editor and TV host specialized in science, health and the environment. He is co-founder and co-director of Historias sin Fronteras and En Común (podcast). He is a member of the 2016-17 generation of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship del MIT and is part of the National Geographic Society's global community of Explorers. As well, Ivan is the general editor of the Tec Review platform specialized in science, innovation and entrepreneurship and is the head of the Ibero-American Scientific and Cultural News (NCC) that is broadcast in 20 countries and three languages. Recently he launched the Aquatic Atlas program on YouTube dedicated to the conservation of the oceans. He has collaborated with the most important national media and his reports in Natgeo (LA) and Newsweek en Español have been recognized with the most outstanding awards in Mexico.
S. Lynne Walker is the president and executive director of InquireFirst and co-founder of Historias sin Fronteras, which was established in 2019 to provide reporting grants to science, health and environment writers in Latin America.
Lynne is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who spent much of her career reporting from Mexico, where she served as Mexico City Bureau Chief from 1992 to 2008 for San Diego, Calif.-based Copley News Service.
Her four-part series on a small Illinois town transformed by immigration, “Beardstown: Reflection of a Changing America,” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. She was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2005 for her outstanding coverage of Latin America.
As executive director of InquireFirst, which she founded in 2016, Lynne continues to travel to Latin America to work with colleagues on new ways to produce in-depth reporting on science, health and the environment and conduct investigative reporting. She has instructed Spanish-language journalism workshops in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador.
Lynne also launched Bajo la Lupa, a grant program to support investigative reporting in Latin America and she is the co-founder of En Común: Conocimiento en Voz Viva, a Spanish-language radio program that reports on science, health and the environment for rural and indigenous audiences in Mexico.
Gustavo Cabullo Madrid is a Mexican journalist with more than 17 years of experience.
He began his career in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Since then, he has covered international issues such as immigration, drug trafficking, corruption, poverty and femicide.
His work has been published by statewide media organizations such as El Diario de El Paso, El Diario de Juárez, Norte Digital, NET magazine and Información Total, as well as UACJ-TV and UACJ-RADIO, with national reach through the University Television and Radio Network of Mexico.
He is a guest speaker at state, national and international universities to discuss new trends in journalism.
He has worked as a journalist in Mexico, the United States, Panama, Cuba, Italy, Spain, France, Israel and Palestine on issues such as insecurity, immigration, drug trafficking, minorities, tourism, economics, religion, art and culture.
In 2018, Gustavo Cabullo Madrid received the Edward R. Murrow Scholarship, awarded by the U.S. State Department, through its International Visitors Program. In 2019, he was awarded a Transparency and Investigative Journalism Fellowship by the international organization InquireFirst and attended a week-long journalism program at California State University, Fullerton.
He has received 11 awards, including two national journalism awards.
In 2020, during the pandemic, he founded his own portal "Ser Visible (servisible.mx), Journalism with Humane Sense", which in 2022 was recognized by the State Human Rights Commission. Ser Visible operates three media products: Website, Facebook, and a YouTube channel with a reach of 252,030 views to date.
Aracely Lazcano is a cross-border journalist and public relations specialist with more than 30 years of experience in television, print and digital media, in addition to working for the public sector and non-profit organizations.
With a Bachelor's degree in organizational and corporate communications from the University of Texas at El Paso, Aracely has worked to promote the use of the Spanish language in official governmental statements in the border city of El Paso, Texas.
Her work as a television journalist in the southwestern United States has given her access to national audiences with her reporting on immigration, drug trafficking and education.
She has reported from the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border for FM Globo, Channel 5 and Channel 26 in El Paso, Texas.
These jobs gave her the opportunity to work for prime-time news programs such as Primer Impacto and Noticiero Univision and led to her becoming the national correspondent for Noticiero Univision in New Mexico, where she collaborated on political, immigration and economic development coverage.
Her work in print media has been published globally as a correspondent for the Reuters news agency, the art magazine AVE Magazine, and the newspapers Norte de Ciudad Juárez, El Diario de Juárez, and El Diario de El Paso, where for several years she was in charge of information management.
In her work as a public relations specialist, she has been one of the first spokespersons in the United States to disseminate bilingual press releases in order to standardize messaging from government agencies to Spanish-speaking communities.
Her passion for streamlining communication channels in different sectors has also led her to work in non-profit organizations, where she has been able to facilitate increased access to social services for indigent people and immigrants.
Juan Antonio Castillo Tapia is a journalist with 31 years of experience. He began his career as a photojournalist at the newspaper Norte de Ciudad Juárez on July 11, 1991, the day Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, was covered by a total solar eclipse. He worked there for many years as a photojournalist and chief photographer.
Since 2000 he has alternated teaching with journalism. He has been a professor of photography and of the history of Mexican art, contemporary art, and culture and art analysis. He has also worked making experimental videos and architectural photography.
Juan Antonio has been awarded two Silver Columns, the highest award for excellence in journalism in Ciudad Juárez.
Since 2017 he has been working at UACJ-TV, a television channel with national reach, as a reporter, cameraman and photojournalist through the University Television and Radio Network of Mexico.
