Lucia is a British-Spanish multimedia producer, journalist and human rights researcher based in New York City. Her work work focuses on the power of innovative tech to promote positive human rights change, and she is passionate about how data, AI and emerging technologies can solve societal challenges. Lucia is currently pursuing a Data MS at Columbia University.
Lucia worked as a Video Producer at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, where she reports on human rights violations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with a focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Previously, she worked as a Producer for the Financial Times’ in-house creative studio and, prior to that, as a Staff Writer for The Calvert Journal, the world’s leading publication for society and culture in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Lucia is a confident filmmaker whose work focuses on powerful individual stories that reveal issues of global importance. Lucia worked as Production Manager on Finding Alaa, a BBC Our World, BBC Arabic and CBC award-winning short documentary that tells the story of families struggling to live with the consequences of acts of terror and the journey of one man's search for a child. Her award-winning directorial debut, The Dream of Karabakh, a short film about an Armenian refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh, was published by multimedia platforms openDemocracy and SIMA Academy.
Lucia holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Documentary from Open City Docs at University College London, where she also obtained an undergraduate degree in liberal arts with a focus in Anthropology and Communications. Originally from Spain, Lucia is fluent in five languages.
