Isabel Caballero-Samper

Isabel Caballero-Samper is a Brooklyn-based anthropologist-turned-journalist from Colombia and the the editor-in-chief of Latin America News Dispatch. Before moving to New York, Isabel was a researcher for Colombia’s National Center of Historic Memory, where she worked on projects on sexual violence as a war crime, the gender aspects of the Colombian armed conflict and the symbolic reparation of victims through the recollection of their life histories. Her beat topics are memory and the legacies of armed conflict, sexual and gender violence and social justice.