Presentes is an independent regional news outlet specializing in gender and sexual diversity. We cover current events in Latin America with correspondents and from our two offices: Buenos Aires and Mexico City. It is comprised of journalists, activists, communicators, and artists.
We seek to bring socially relevant issues to the agenda that are underrepresented in traditional media. We do so from a human rights perspective, with quality journalism and innovative formats.
We highlight human rights violations against LGBTI+ people, human rights defenders, Indigenous women, and migrants from an intersectional perspective. We highlight these struggles and seek to influence public opinion, combating discrimination and misinformation as ways to fight and transform.
We expand the impact of media coverage and freedom of expression in Latin America through training for journalists.
We practice specialized journalism that is rigorous in its investigative capacity and data collection, in collaboration with stakeholders and civil society organizations.
VISION
At Presentes, we envision a world where women and diversity—in the broadest sense of the term—are represented in the media, free from bias and discrimination. And they enjoy the full exercise of their right to communication, as producers of their own media and protagonists of stories within a framework of plural and democratic communication.
We provide in-person and virtual journalism training with a gender and human rights focus to more than 1,000 students, professionals, and newsrooms in Latin America.
Since 2016, we have been providing communication workshops to 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 issues, and coordinate talks on gender and diversity topics, as well as analyses of best practices, for 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, as well as audiovisual, artistic, and infographic productions for a better understanding of complex ideas.
She holds a degree in Literature and a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Lille (France). She is the co-founder of Presentes. She writes regularly for the Radar supplement of Página/12 and La Diaria (Uruguay). She has published in: Inrocks (France); Courrier International (France); Pikara (Spain); and Revista Anfibia (Argentina); and Brecha (Uruguay).
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On television, she conducted research for documentaries on Discovery Channel Latin America and the Arté channel (France). Her reports and stories are included in the following books: "Saharaouis" (Édition du Passager Clandestin, 2010); "Incorrecta: Sexualidades y afros" (Editorial La Diaria, 2015); "Mónica por Mónica" (Irrupciones, 2015); "22 Cuentistas" (Irrupciones, 2013); "Cualquiercosario" (2012). She is the author of "De a ratos" (Editorial Yaugurú). She was a writer and editor for the international news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) and worked for CNN's Uruguayan correspondent. She is Uruguayan and has lived in Buenos Aires since 2012.
A graduate in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, she is a professor of the Human Rights Narratives Workshop I of the Master's Program in Communication and Human Rights, Faculty of Journalism and Communication (National University of La Plata).
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Author of “Laura, life and activism of Laura Carlotto” (2013, Planeta publishing house). She was deputy director of Infojus Noticias, the national legal news agency of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation. 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 house), Mujer magazine (Perfil), Crítica newspaper of Argentina, TXT, among others. Internet: ViceNews in Spanish, Anfibia magazine, Cosecha Roja, Chequeado, FM Nacional Rock 93.7, The History Channel Latin America and Anima Films. She won an award for Best Chronicle with Social Impact for an article for Hecho en Bs.As by the International Network of Street Papers (INSP ); the Pleiades for the best research team (Association of Newspaper and Magazine Editors) and the “Citizen Pride” Diploma, Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals (FALGBT, 2006).
She is a communicator, audiovisual producer, and visual artist. She studied Film Directing in Buenos Aires. She worked for five years at Télam, Argentina's National News Agency, and was the press department coordinator for the Public Defender's Office of the City of Buenos Aires. She is currently the general coordinator of Agencia Presentes in Mexico, where she has lived since 2018.
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She teaches communication workshops from a feminist and human rights perspective for LGBTI+ coverage and campaigns. She founded the collective Articiclo, which uses visual arts to project and intervene in public spaces as a political action to embrace 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 collaborated in Buenos Aires, Mexico, and Canada.
As a VJ-Performer, she has performed live at festivals, museums, and
self-managed spaces.
Journalist, writer, activist, HIV positive, performer, gay, and Capricorn. He has published work in the Washington Post, Página12, Clarín, BuzzFeed, and other publications. He has given two TEDx talks. He is currently the audience editor at Agencia Presentes and a columnist for FutuRock radio.
We network with other independent media outlets and organizations to share content and generate collaborative projects. We believe in collaborative and plural journalism.
A news agency covering Latin America. Founded in November 2016, it produces and publishes news and investigations with a gender and human rights perspective.
In 2019, the Buenos Aires City Legislature declared it "of interest for the defense and promotion of human rights."
In 2022, she received the Jáuregui Award in Argentina, awarded by the Equality Foundation, and the Impulse Award in Mexico, awarded by the Impulse Mexico Association.
A partnership between Agencia Presentes and WikiDDHH (Wikimedia Argentina) for inclusive communication of diversity on Wikipedia.
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In 2019, there was a spike in violence against LGBT+ people in Argentina. Together with activists, we compiled data on these hate crimes.
How is Presentes financed?
To whom is Presentes accountable?
As a civil society organization based in Argentina, Presentes maintains an annual financial statement and is registered with the public tax administration (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 association.
What's the best way to contact them?
Email us at contacto@agenciapresentes.org
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