About Me

Desirée Yépez is an award-winning Ecuadorian journalist, fact-checker, and author. Her work has appeared in international media, such as El País, Radio Ambulante, Exile Content, HuffPost, Agencia Pública, and Univision. As a reporter, she covers human rights, gender, and topics about vulnerable communities. Between September 2022 and June 2023, she was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford.

Nowadays, she’s a reporter and digital producer at Radio Ambulante Studios and the Journalistic Director of Mullu.Tv.

In 2020, with the support of the ICFJ, she founded Silenciadas, a platform that exposes femicides that occurred during the isolation due to the pandemic. In 2022, this initiative was turned into a book that works as a historical record.

Desirée was a fellow of the Diploma in Freedom of Expression offered by the Inter-American Press Society. In 2016, she was a grantee of Agencia Pública (Brazil) to cover Human Rights issues at the Rio Olympics; that same year, she was a beneficiary of WAN-IFRA's Media and Society Strengthening Program for women leaders in newsrooms.

As Director of Content at Fundamedios (an NGO that defends freedom of expression and press in the Americas), she led the consolidation of Ecuador Chequea, the first Ecuadorian portal specialized in fact-checking in her country.