Bio

Anna-Catherine Brigida is a freelance journalist who has covered migration, politics, security, human rights, environmental justice, reproductive rights and women’s rights in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico and Central America, since 2015. She was a 2021 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow reporting on mental health in El Salvador and Honduras and is a 2022 Bruno Fellow with Coda Story. She is also a part-time editor with El Faro English and Global Voices.

She frequently publishes breaking news, feature, and enterprise stories in international media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Guardian, TIME, Texas Observer, Al Jazeera and many more. Her work has been recognized by the Livingston Awards, National Press Club and One World Media Awards, and her reporting has been supported by the International Center for Journalists/Border Center, International Women’s Media Foundation, Food and Environment Reporting Network, Pulitzer Center and Solutions Journalism Network.

Her 2018 story documenting murders of deportees in El Salvador for World Politics Review was selected as a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and honorable mention from the National Press Club awards. In 2020, she was one of two reporters who investigated for The Texas Observer how ICE exported COVID through deportations by failing to take the proper precautions. The piece was selected as the second place story for the ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting contest in the Transparency, Crime, and Corruption category. She has also investigated the deaths of migrant minors in U.S. custody, the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador and Honduras, and impunity for gender violence and LGBT hate crimes in Central America.

Anna-Cat graduated from USC Annenberg with a degree in print and digital journalism in 2015. As a student, she worked as a reporter and editor for community news website Intersections South LA. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a part-time staff writer for the Migratory Notes newsletter, writing a weekly summary of the latest immigration news.

She is currently based in Honduras and was previously based in Guatemala City, San Salvador, Mexico City, Medellin, and Buenos Aires. She has reported all over the region and is fully fluent in Spanish.