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Presentes is an independent regional news outlet specializing in coverage of gender and sexual diversity issues. We cover current events in Latin America through correspondents and from our two offices: Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Our team is comprised of journalists, activists, communicators, and artists.

We aim to bring socially significant issues to the forefront that are underrepresented in traditional media. We do so from a human rights perspective, with journalistic quality and innovative formats.

Mission

We bring to light human rights violations against LGBTI+ people, human rights defenders, Indigenous women, and migrants from an intersectional perspective. We report on these struggles and seek to influence public opinion, combating discrimination and disinformation as ways to fight and transform society.

We expand the impact of media coverage and freedom of expression in Latin America through training for journalists.

We practice specialized and rigorous journalism in its investigative capacity and data construction in collaboration with its protagonists and civil society organizations.

Vision

At Presentes, we envision a world where women and diverse groups—in their broadest sense—are represented in the media, free from bias and discrimination. And where they fully exercise their right to communication, as producers of their own media and protagonists of stories within a pluralistic and democratic communication framework.

Presentes was born on November 24, 2016.

Founders: María Eugenia Ludueña, Ana Fornaro and Luciana Caminos.

Ana Fornaro was co-director of Presentes until August 2025.

What else do we do?

We provide in-person and virtual journalism training with a focus on gender and human rights to more than 1000 students, professionals and newsrooms in Latin America.

Since 2016 we have been providing communication workshops for more than 200 sexual diversity activists from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Mexico.

We support the creation of indigenous community media.

We provide advice on gender and rights, and coordinate talks on gender and diversity issues, as well as analyses of good practices, to private and public entities.

Based on our experience in communication, we provide editorial services to organizations and companies: production, editing and proofreading of communication materials, and audiovisual, artistic and infographic productions for a better understanding of complex ideas.

The team

General Direction and Editing

María Eugenia Ludueña

@maruska

A graduate in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, she is a professor of the Workshop on Narratives about Human Rights I of the Master's Degree in Communication and Human Rights, Faculty of Journalism and Communication (National University of La Plata).

Author of “Laura, Life and Activism of Laura Carlotto” (2013, Planeta Publishing). She was deputy director of Infojus Noticias, the national legal news agency of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. She has worked as a journalist since 1992: Las Doce and Soy supplements (Página/12), La Nación Magazine of the La Nación newspaper (Argentina), Gatopardo, The Clinic, Nueva and Rumbos magazines, Hecho en BsAs, Para ti magazine (Atlántida Publishing), Mujer magazine (Perfil), Diario Crítica de la Argentina, TXT, among others. Online: Vice News in Spanish, Anfibia magazine, Cosecha Roja, Chequeado, FM Nacional Rock 93.7, The History Channel Latin America, and Anima Films. She received an award for Best Chronicle with Social Impact for an article in Hecho en BsAs from the International Network of Street Papers (INSP ). the Pléiade award for best research team (Association of Newspaper and Magazine Editors) and the “Citizen Pride” Diploma, Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals (FALGBT, 2006).

Mexico Coordination

Milena Pafundi

@milenapafundi

A communicator, journalist, and artivist, she coordinates Agencia Presentes in Mexico, where she combines strategies, narratives, and journalism with a transfeminist and human rights perspective. She has worked with over 50 social organizations in Latin America, designing campaigns and workshops that blend art, narrative change, technology, and communication. She loves octopuses, hacking formats, and crossing boundaries.

She leads communication workshops with a feminist and human rights perspective for LGBTI+ coverage and campaigns. She founded the Articiclo collective, which uses visual arts to project and intervene in public spaces as a form of political action to support the struggles of a present in crisis. Her video “Un tiempo” won the ALUCINE 2007 festival in Toronto, Canada.
She has held several exhibitions and collaborations in Buenos Aires, Mexico, and Canada.
As a VJ-Performer, she has performed live at festivals, museums, and self-managed spaces
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Audience Edition

Lucas Gutiérrez

@lucasfauno

Journalist, writer, activist, HIV+, performer, queer, and Capricorn. He has published work in the Washington Post, Página12, Clarín, BuzzFeed, among others. He has given two TEDx talks. He is currently an audience editor at Agencia Presentes and a columnist for FutuRock radio.

Alliances

We build networks with other independent media outlets and organizations to share content and develop joint projects. We believe in collaborative and pluralistic journalism.

We Remember (Colombia)
The Daily (Uruguay)
Alharaca (El Salvador)
Periodicals (Argentina)
Argentine Time (Argentina)
Pikara Magazine (Spain)
Wikimedia Argentina
ILGALAC (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Report Without Fear (Honduras)
You can't live on love (radio program hosted by Franco Torchia, on Public Radio of the City of Buenos Aires)
openDemocracy
Political Mask (Mexico)

Projects and achievements

Present Agency

A news agency covering Latin America. Founded in November 2016. Produces and publishes news and investigations with a gender and human rights perspective.

In 2019 it was declared “of interest for the defense and promotion of human rights” by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires.

In 2022 she received the Jáuregui Award in Argentina, awarded by the Fundación Igualdad, and the Impulse Award in Mexico, awarded by the Asociación Impulse México.

LGBT+ Human Rights Wiki

An alliance between Agencia Presentes and WikiDDHH (Wikimedia Argentina) for inclusive communication about diversity on Wikipedia.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT

Journalistic mapping of hate crimes in Argentina

In 2019, there was a spike in violence against LGBT+ people in Argentina. Together with activists, we compiled data on these hate crimes.

LEARN ABOUT THE PROJECT

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Presentes financed?

Presentes has a team of journalists, communicators, photographers, illustrators, artists and programmers.
We were born in November 2016 thanks to the contribution of a seed fund.
Independent journalism requires resources.
Our resources come from international cooperation funds, face-to-face and virtual training workshops, micro-donations and consultancies.
Some of the donors who have supported us include: Fondo Semillas, Fondo de Mujeres del Sur, the Embassy of Canada in Argentina and Paraguay, and the National Endowment for Democracy
Diversifying our income is a challenge and a crucial issue in order to continue doing independent journalism.
To make a donation, you can enter here .

To whom is Presentes accountable?

As a civil society organization based in Argentina, Presentes maintains an annual financial statement and is registered with the Argentine Federal Tax Authority (AFIP). The association is approved by the General Inspectorate of Justice , which registers and oversees civil societies and associations domiciled in the City of Buenos Aires.
We also send quarterly financial and narrative reports to our international donors detailing every expense incurred by the organization.

What's the best way to contact them?

Through our email: contacto@agenciapresentes.org

We are present

We are committed to journalism that delves into the territories and conducts thorough investigations, combined with new technologies and narrative formats. We want the protagonists, their stories, and their struggles to be present.

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