The Knight Center team is led by Professor Rosental Calmon Alves, who holds the UNESCO Chair in Communication and the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Moody College of Communication’s School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Alves, a veteran Brazilian journalist, moved to Austin in 1996 as the inaugural holder […]
Summer Harlow is the associate director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and a visiting associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously she was an associate journalism professor in the Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston, and an assistant professor of social media at Florida State University. […]
Teresa Mioli is the editorial manager for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. She is interested in press freedom, democratization, and investigative journalism in Latin America and is dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of independent news media to the health of democracies. She produces journalistic work with the aim of helping […]
Jorge Valencia is the assistant editor of the LatAm Journalism Review. He's based in Bogotá and previously covered Latin America from Mexico City for public radio stations in the United States. A 2023 fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, he has also reported from Arizona, North Carolina and Virginia. He grew […]
Filipa Rodrigues is a multimedia producer and senior distance learning coordinator for the Knight Center of Journalism in the Americas. Born and raised in Portugal, Filipa moved to Austin in 2012 through the Digital Media Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She worked as a multimedia producer for Austin’s NPR member station […]
Michael Bartnett is the technology coordinator at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. With a deep understanding of the digital landscape, he is passionate about leveraging technology for impactful reporting and storytelling. As the former web and digital director for the Austin Chronicle, an independent alternative newsweekly in Austin, Texas, his nearly 20 […]
From the sister cities of Juárez/El Paso, Hugo Ortiz is the marketing and communications coordinator at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin, Hugo understands the weight of storytelling and is interested in amplifying the Knight Center’s impact through […]
Camila Llorente, the online course associate at the Knight Center of Journalism in the Americas, is a Venezuelan storyteller with double majors in Journalism and Theatre and Dance, and a minor in U.S. Latino and Latin American media studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her versatile skills in storytelling, performing arts and social […]
Kathy Borowski is an energetic and dedicated accounting manager and HR lead with over 35 years of experience at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin. With a Master's in Library and Information Science, she's a pro at juggling HR systems, boosting efficiency, and keeping things running smoothly—all while […]
Maria Saad is the administrative associate of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. She was previously an assistant manager for Document Solutions, and a bilingual coordinator for the LUCHA Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has a MBA and BA in Marketing.
André Duchiade is a Brazilian journalist and translator based in Rio de Janeiro. André worked on the international politics desk at O Globo from 2018 to February 2023, and his stories have been published by The Scientific American, The Intercept, Época, and Agência Pública de Jornalismo, among others. He is also a former Media Fellow […]
Silvia A. Higuera Flórez is a Colombian journalist who has written for the Knight Center since 2012. She is interested in covering Latin American issues and human rights, especially the right to freedom of expression, and investigative journalism. She studied Social Communication and Journalism at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Bucaramanga (Colombia), and received her Master's of […]