Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul is a Mexican journalist and author. She is the Executive Director of Defensores de la Democracia, a nonprofit working to prevent lethal violence against local reporters. Ibarra Chaoul holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her work has been published by Mexican and international media outlets. She has been a Toni Stabile fellow for investigative journalism, a Brown Institute for Media Innovation fellow, a remote resident for the Doing Thing with Stories program at ArtEz University, and a Dart Ochberg Fellow. She covered the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in New York for a Sinaloa-based outlet and published a book about it. Her second book is an essay collection where she explains the reasons violence against reporters is systemic in Mexico.