ABOUT ME

I’m Alessandra Bergamin, a freelance investigative journalist.

My work focuses on environmental violence and human rights around the world.

I’ve written for The Baffler, In These Times, Harper’s Magazine, Atmos National Geographic, TheNewYorker.com, The Lily, 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 piece also won first place in the 2025 American Society of Journalists and Authors writing awards in the Environmental/Climate/Sustainability category.

I was a 2023-2024 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. My investigative work has also been supported by a public records grant from The Gumshoe Group. In 2022, I was honored as a Distinguished Journalist by the Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles in the newspaper/print (smaller circulation) category. My work has been shortlisted for the True Story Award, a global journalism prize, and was included in the PM Press anthology, “Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid.”

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

I also write a free, mostly monthly newsletter called, Defender.

You can find my full CV here. 

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