Monica Pelliccia

is an Italian freelance multimedia journalist who covers environmental and social issues such as biodiversity conservation, women’s issues, climate change, Indigenous peoples’ rights, food security and agroecology. She has produced reports from India, Ecuador, Honduras, Brazil, Cambodia, Morocco, and Spain for international media outlets as Mongabay, L’Espresso, El Pais, and The Guardian. She was a 2017 Adelante Fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, earned a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and the University of Barcelona. She speaks English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.