Alessandra Bergamin is an accomplished journalist based in Los Angeles who specializes in environmental justice, immigration, gender, and public health. She has written for well-known publications like National Geographic, The New Yorker, Harper’s magazine, and BuzzFeed. Her work also encompasses photography and video production, and she speaks and works in Spanish and Italian.

Bergamin has received numerous awards, including the 2020 IJNR Environmental Justice Reporting Award and the 2019 UC Berkeley Food and Farming Fellowship. She studied media and communications, journalism, and Italian language and literature at The University of Melbourne and Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, respectively. She also obtained a master’s degree in journalism, new media, and narrative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bergamin has experience as a web producer at Kaiser Health News and has served as both founder and freelance journalist at various organizations. She is an editorial intern at Harper's Magazine and fact-checks front-of-book items and features for Alta magazine, BuzzFeed, and California Sunday. Additionally, Bergamin recently founded Defender, a newsletter focused on the global environmental justice movement.