I’m Alessandra Bergamin, a freelance investigative journalist.

My work focuses on environmental violence and human rights around the world. With an emphasis on militarism, I investigate how the destruction of the environment is intertwined with human rights abuses and more often than not, connected through state-violence. The global scope of my work — from the Philippines to Guatemala — shows not only the reach of the military industrial complex, but the ways in which violence and resistance connect people across the world.

I’ve written for In These Times, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Atmos, National Geographic, Waging Nonviolence, and DAME Magazine among others. I recently wrote about the women survivors of the Bhopal Gas Disaster for Atmos and investigated how U.S. security assistance fuels violence against environmental defenders around the world for In These Times magazine. This investigation won a 2025 CCNow Journalism Award in the the Conflict & Climate Change category. Judges said: “combining strong, character-driven storytelling with impressive sourcing and credible, hardwon data, Bergamin’s story clearly makes the case that the US is funding environmental assassinations abroad.” The investigation also won awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Society of Environmental Journalists.

I was a 2024 reporting fellow with The Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting, a 2022 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Transatlantic Media Fellow, a 2020 IJNR Environmental Justice Reporting Award grantee, and a 2019 UC Berkeley Food and Farming fellow. In 2022, I was honored as a Distinguished Journalist by the Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles.

I have reported from multiple countries and speak Italian and Spanish.

I also write a free newsletter called, Defender.

You can find my full CV here.

Reach me at: abergamin89@gmail.com. Follow me on Instagram, Bluesky and Tiktok.