Daniel Villatoro’s Biography
Daniel Villatoro is the Coordinator of LGBTI journalism Initiative by the International Women's Media Foundation, a program that trains and provides support to media on accurate reporting to surpass prejudice.
As a recognition of his work, Villatoro was selected for a Fellowship by the Human Rights Advocates Program at the University of Columbia in New York. Currently, he lives in London.
Villatoro also founded Impronta, a queer Central American magazine, has published five educational guides on different aspects related to inclusive coverage practices; his book “The registry of violence against LGBTI people” won the “new voices” call by the Latin American Open Data Initiative.
In the past, he worked as coordinator of the School of Data program for Latin America as part of SocialTic (México) and as investigative reporter at Plaza Publica. His work as an investigative journalist has been awarded multiple prizes like the Inter-American Press Society award for Best Coverage and Best Data Journalism Project and the TRACE Award for Investigative Journalism. Hes been finalist at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez prize, the Roche prize in health reporting, the Media Innovation Fellowship by The Wall Street Journal and the International Center for Journalist and the IDEA Award on sexual and reproductive health media innovation, two years on a row. He was part of the Guatemalan chapter of the Paradise Papers series, the global collaborative investigation by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
With Estudio Abierto, his consultancy firm, he has worked for Internews, IREX, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republic Institute, NORC at the University of Chicago and the United Nations Development Programme and as trainer and professor for the Organization of American States, the Interamerican Development Bank, the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas and at Columbia University.