Edilma Prada Cespedes

Investigative journalist Specialist in Human Rights and Culture of Peace and Candidate for Master in Human Rights. It has been covering topics of armed conflict, indigenous peoples, peace and environment for 15 years. Founder and director of the Agenda Propia media, -www.agendapropriate.co- initiative of journalistic co-creation on issues of indigenous peoples and minority groups. Creator of the Intercultural Collaborative Journalism methodology that seeks to unite civil society actors to carry out in-depth stories or reports.
She worked as a consultant and journalist in an investigation of illegal timber trafficking in the Colombian Amazon conducted for the global NGO Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
In 2018, Panama Papers participated in the research, Colombia chapter, published in the journalistic platform of the Americas Connectas and El Espectador.
She is a trainer in journalism, peace narratives, open data and digital tools of DW Akademie in Latin America.
He has received several national and international awards. The most recent, the Regional Journalism Prize 2019, for better written reporting, by the Bogotá Indígena special published in Own Agenda. The recognition was granted in Colombia by Semana Magazine and Grupo Argos.