
Constantaras briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2022: Data Journalism That Engages Citizens.
Eva Constantaras is a data journalist specialized in building data journalism teams in the Global South. These teams have reported from across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa on topics ranging from broken foreign aid and food insecurity to extractive industries and gender-based violence.
As a Google Data Journalism Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow, she developed a course for investigative and data journalism in high-risk environments. Her cross-border reporting projects have been supported by the Gates Foundation, Google, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Mozilla Foundation, UNDP, Deutsche Welle, BBC and the European Journalism Centre. The Daniel Pearl Award Committee, the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Global Data Journalism Awards have recognized her projects for their contribution to transparency and accountability.
Eva received her BA from Grinnell College and advanced journalism degrees from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain. She has lived in nine countries and traveled to nine times as many. Eva is currently based in Athens, Greece where she manages data projects for Internews and Lighthouse Reports.
