Adriana Gallardo is a journalist, essayist, and educator based in New York City. She covers gender for ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism. Since 2016, Gallardo’s reporting has contributed to numerous awards including a Peabody, an Ellie, a Pulitzer Prize finalist series for explanatory reporting (Lost Mothers) and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for public service (Lawless). More from her investigative work can be found here. 

Each Fall semester, Adriana teaches Advanced Reporting on Latino Communities, en español, at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. 

Adriana is also an essayist represented by Aemelia Phillips and David Patterson with the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.  Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult and in Daughters of Latin America, a 2023 anthology available in english and Spanish with Harper Collins. 

She was born in central Mexico and grew up in a family of janitors working in the suburbs of Chicago. More on that here. 

photo: Aaron J. Arreguin