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Clavel Rangel Jiménez (she/her) is a Venezuelan journalist based in Miami who works as an independent reporter and helped found the Network of Journalists from the Venezuelan Amazon. Trained in investigative reporting, she previously served as Senior Editor at El Tiempo Latino in Washington, D.C., and led the award-winning newsletter Soy Arepita as Editor-in-Chief. Her reporting focuses on human rights, environmental concerns, labor, and migration, and has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, Univision, Correo del Caroní, and Armando.info. In 2020, she was selected as a Resilience Fund Fellow. She is currently affiliated with the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and was named a 2024 Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellow by IRE. In 2023, she became part of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Clavel studied journalism at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Guayana, where she also later taught as a professor.. X: @ClavelRangel | LinkedIn: @ClavelRangelearned a diploma in applied cybersecurity from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Julio A. Lopez (b. 1968) is a Venezuelan author, journalist, and media executive whose work explores geopolitics, technology, and global security. His publications range from children’s literature to essays on artificial intelligence, strategic conflict, and technological change, and several of his works are listed in the Library of Congress catalog. Lopez served as Director and Editor-in-Chief of El Diario de Caracas and The Daily Journal. During his career he interviewed numerous heads of state and global leaders, including two meetings with Vladimir Putin and an interview with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

In 2006, while covering the Israel–Hezbollah war in Lebanon, Iranian authorities deported Lopez from Iran during reporting on the regional crisis. In 2015 he left Venezuela and entered political exile in the United States after years of threats and political pressure related to his journalism. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, completed graduate programs at Harvard University, received training in artificial intelligence at Stanford University, and earned a diploma in applied cybersecurity from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.