Dánae Vílchez

Journalist

Nicaragua

Dánae Vílchez is a Nicaraguan multimedia journalist, currently the Central America Correspondent for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes and defends press freedom worldwide. Ms. Vílchez is also finishing her Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media, and Globalization, with a specialization in Media and Politics from the University of Amsterdam. Ms. Vílchez previously worked at the Nicaraguan independent news outlet Confidencial. Her work has, among others, appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, New Internationalist and Aj+.