Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul is a journalist and book author. She created and leads the nonprofit Defensores de la Democracia, which aims to prevent violence against local reporters. Her work has been published by The Washignton Post, The New Yorker, Gatopardo, Letras Libres, Ríodoce, among others. She has been a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and a visiting scholar at The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the ArtEZ University. Ibarra Chaoul holds a BA in Political Science from Mexico's Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) and a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University.