Louisa Reynolds

Is a bilingual independent journalist, translator and consultant currently based in Mexico City. Her work focuses on human rights, gender, development, and transitional justice and her byline has appeared in a broad range of English and Spanish-language publications, including Newsweek en Español, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Al Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor, Americas Quarterly, Noticias Aliadas, The International Justice Tribune, Womens’ e News, Inter-Press Service, Proceso, Nexos, Estrategia&Negocios, among other publications.

Throughout her career in Latin America, Reynolds has covered major regional events such as four elections in Guatemala and Mexico, the trial of Guatemala’s former military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, the Central American migrant caravans in 2018, and the Fuego volcano eruption in Guatemala.

Due to her expertise in Latin American current affairs, in 2014, Reynolds was interviewed by Fernando del Rincón on CNN to discuss her article Are We Witnessing a Central American Spring? published in Foreign Policy magazine.

Reynolds has been competitively selected for five journalism fellowships by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), the World Press Institute (WPI) and Universidad Iberoamericana. 

In 2022, she was awarded the GLAAD Media Award, which honors fair, accurate and inclusive media representations of the LGBTQ+ community, for her long-form article Claudia García, la enfermera que lucha contra el Covid en Ciudad Juárez, published in Nexos and Perro Crónico. Previously, she won the Gold Standard Award, awarded by Guatemalan-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) for an article on indigenous entrepreneurs published by Estrategia&Negocios magazine. For more details click here.

In 2024, Reynolds worked for the Latin America desk at The Associated Press, in Mexico City. Prior to that, she worked as the first copy editor and fact checking manager for Condé Nast Mexico and Latin America’s new Mexico City hub.

She has also worked as a regional editor for the Investigative Reporting Initiative in the Americas, a project funded by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) that supports investigative journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean to report on crime and corruption. As the project’s regional editor, Reynolds organized the ICFJ’s investigative journalism workshop in Guatemala City and edited the work produced by participants. A cross-border investigation on femicide in Central America, produced as part of the project, won an Inter-American Press Society award. 

Her experience as a mentor also includes writing a chapter on how to cover education stories for the Reporter’s Guide to the Millennium Development Goals: Covering Development Commitments for 2015 and Beyond, published by the International Press Institute.

Reynolds has a degree in Modern Languages from University College London (UCL) and an MA in Latin American Studies from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, as well as a diploma in newspaper journalism from the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), in the U.K.