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Congratulations to the wonderful group of Volcanistas who made UTV 2024 our best year ever. We open for applications on July 1 for UTV 2025.

Congratulations to the wonderful group of Volcanistas who made UTV 2024 our best year ever. We open for applications on July 1 for UTV 2025.

Alumni News – Journalism

Alumni News

Cartels in the Mangroves

América Armenta (2024 Robert L. Breen fellow), a freelance reporter based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, reports from the hidden waterways at the heart of the country’s inland fisheries, where clandestine narco labs are producing metamphetamines for export to the US with a cocktail of ingredients that are destroying livelihoods and contaminating the environment. The series, created with support from Quinto Elemento, is also available in English on ElPais.com

Alumni News

When Deed Becomes Word

Simone Scriven (UTV 2019, journalism) has written a stunning, magisterial piece that traces the evolution of the word ecocide as a term analogous to genocide, a concept that is gradually moving into the world of international law.