MISSION STATEMENT:

NAHJ Investigative & Data Journalism Task Force purpose is a driving force dedicated to educate and support Latino journalists. We are focused on promoting investigative teams, and increase the presence of Latinos in newsrooms. We are a group of professional journalists facilitating discussions, sessions and training to improve members skills and pave a path for the next gen of Latinos in journalism.

Investigative & Data Journalism Task Members

Marina Villeneuve

Marina Villeneuve is an investigative reporter for The Hechinger Report. She worked for over six years as a statehouse reporter for The Associated Press covering New York and Maine, where she chronicled the administrations of former Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Paul LePage.  She has also worked as a legal reporter covering Trump's legal battles for Salon, and as an investigative producer at a local Boston television station leading investigations into abuse at public schools and nursing home inspections. She has also covered Colombian peace negotiations for the Washington Post, Congress for the L.A. Times, and northern New Jersey municipalities for The (Bergen) Record. She is a board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the New England chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She has contributed reporting to investigations that have won recognition from the Goldsmith Awards and the Silurians Press Club. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she majored in government with a focus on constitutional law. She has also earned a certificate in data journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. 

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Marina Villeneuve

Co-Chair

Perla Trevizo

Perla Trevizo is a reporter with the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative. Throughout her 20 years in journalism, she has focused on politics, immigration, and the environment. She began her career in her hometown of El Paso, Texas and worked for five newspapers across three states before joining ProPublica in 2020.

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Perla Trevizo

Co-Chair

Morelys Urbano

Morelys Urbano was born in the Dominican Republic, and was partially raised in La Coruna, Spain, where she studied for three years. She migrated to reunite with her mother in the U.S. in 2017. As the daughter of an immigrant single mom, Morelys developed a sense of resilience through her immigrant identity that manifested in her professional career as a journalist, her artistry as a poet and author, and her consistency as an advocate and activist.  

She is currently pursuing studies in Multimedia Journalism and a minor in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Morgan State University, a Maryland HBCU. Upon completing her undergraduate studies, Morelys hopes to obtain a PhD in cultural or Hispanic studies. 

From a young age, Morelys has utilized her creativity as a tool for social justice. This dedication recently culminated in the eagerly anticipated release of her debut book, “A Sangre Fria,” a bilingual poetry anthology resonating with themes of resilience, Blackness, and womanhood, and her homonymous musical poetry album. Beyond her literary achievements, she made history as the first undocumented Afro-Latina to establish an organization dedicated to advocating for immigrant rights at an HBCU. 

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Morelys Urbano

Working Member

Clavel Rangel

Clavel Rangel Jiménez is a journalist with 15 years of experience covering labor unions, migration, human rights, climate change, corruption, and extractive industries in Venezuela and across the Americas. She is a co-founder of the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network, an initiative dedicated to fostering training, knowledge exchange, and collaboration among journalists.

A 2024 Fellow with Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Clavel is based in Miami, and her work has been featured in Correo del Caroní, Armando.info, The Guardian, Univision, and El Tiempo Latino. Her current research explores the resettlement and integration of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S., with a particular focus on the mental health challenges faced by asylum-seeking families and children in schools. She is developing a long-term project to document these dynamics.

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Clavel Rangel

Working Member

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