ABOUT ME
I’m Alessandra Bergamin, an Australian freelance journalist based in Los Angeles.
My work focuses on environmental violence and human rights around the world.
I’ve written for The Baffler, In These Times, Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, TheNewYorker.com, The Lily, and DAME Magazine among others. I most recently investigated how U.S. security assistance fuels violence against environmental defenders around the world — you can read the story here. Currently, with support from The Science Journalists Association of Australia, I’m investigating the impact of Australian mining companies abroad.
I was a 2023 reporting fellow with The Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting, a 2022 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Transatlantic Media Fellow, a 2020 IJNR Environmental Justice Reporting Award grantee, and a 2019 UC Berkeley Food and Farming fellow. My investigative work has also been supported by a public records grant from The Gumshoe Group. In 2022, I was honored as a Distinguished Journalist by the Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles in the newspaper/print (smaller circulation) category. My work has been shortlisted for the True Story Award, a global journalism prize, and was included in the PM Press anthology, “Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid.”
I have reported from multiple countries and speak Italian and Spanish.
I am also the founder of Defender — a free, mostly monthly newsletter.
You can find my full CV here.
Reach me at: abergamin89@gmail.com. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram.