About Me

Desirée Yépez is an award-winning Ecuadorian journalist, fact-checker, and author. She is a reporter and digital producer for Radio Ambulante Studios and a freelancer for El País, based in California. As a reporter, she covers human rights, gender, and vulnerable communities. She is a former JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford.

In 2024, the International News Media Association (INMA) and Google News selected her for the Elevate Scholarship program. That same year, she was a beneficiary of the Latinos, Media, and Democracy Program: The Periodistas Edition, organized by the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA). Desirée is a former fellow of the Diploma in Freedom of Expression offered by the Inter-American Press Society, a grantee of Agencia Pública (Brazil) to cover Human Rights issues at the Rio Olympics, and beneficiary of WAN-IFRA's Media and Society Strengthening Program for women leaders in newsrooms.

In 2020, with the support of the International Center for Journalists, she founded Silenciadas, a platform that exposes femicides that occurred during isolation due to the pandemic. In 2022, this initiative was turned into a book. In 2019, the German Cooperation in Ecuador recognized her as a woman whose journalism is essential for rights and equality.