Natalia Guerrero is one of the judges for the 2023 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting.

Guerrero is a Senior Journalist and Commissioning Editor at BBC Reel, the BBC’s short documentaries platform. She is an award-winner journalist with a vast experience as a reporter, primarily working for the BBC World Service, in English and Spanish, where she covered all kinds of underreported topics and current affairs during the past 10 years. Some examples of her multimedia pieces in TV, radio, and text that reached a global audience include the invisible traumas of war in Colombia, the devastating effects of dental care inequality in the U.S., and the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Guerrero is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2020). She was  National Press Foundation Food & Agriculture Reporting Fellow in 2018 She is originally from Colombia and has lived in the US for 13 years.