I've always needed
to know why.

I grew up wanting to understand how things actually work, so I studied physics. But equations weren't enough. I needed the human stories underneath the data, the people living inside the systems. By the time I graduated from UNAM, I was already more interested in telling stories about science than becoming a scientist myself. My undergraduate thesis wasn't a traditional thesis at all. It was a documentary.

After graduation, UNAM's Institute of Physics invited me to build its science communication unit. About a year later, IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the UK's Institute of Physics, came knocking. I spent two years there as Latin America Account Manager, working with the most important universities and physics associations across the continent.

By then, the direction was pretty clear: I wanted to understand complicated things, ask good questions about them, and figure out how to tell those stories to everyone else.

So I went all in on journalism. A Chevening Scholarship took me to Imperial College London for an MSc in Science Media Production, and a Fulbright took me to New York for an MA in Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, I've reported from Mexico City, London, Washington D.C. and New York for The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Scientific American, Gatopardo, the BBC and many more.

Along the way, the work picked up a College Emmy, a few more grants and prizes, and more scholarships than I can reasonably explain without turning this page into a CV.

In 2021, I hosted and led production of Un Poco de Contexto, a Spotify Original news podcast in Spanish about current affairs in Mexico. The 32-episode weekly series reached #1 in News in Mexico on Spotify. Not because we had the biggest platform. Because we refused to stop at the first explanation.

That show opened doors I didn't expect. Brands started coming to me wanting what we had built. Kizaya Studios, the production company I had founded to make Un Poco de Contexto, grew into a full-fledged production company.

Since then, we've produced hundreds of episodes for clients around the world, including DiDi, BirdNote and El Colegio de México.

Kizaya is still doing what it does best. But somewhere along the way, I realized I missed doing what I do best: reporting, asking difficult questions, and making sense of a complicated world. So I'm back to making journalism of my own, following the questions wherever they lead.

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