Investigative Journalism
Gisela Pérez de Acha reports on extremism, disinformation and environmental issues for media outlets in Mexico and elsewhere. As a recent faculty member in the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California Berkeley, she co-taught the pioneering Open-Source Investigative Reporting class with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and program director David Barstow. She is also a human rights lawyer, an open source researcher at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and holder of a masters degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. Born and raised in Mexico, Gisela speaks fluent Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.