Elena Ledda

Elena is the regional research manager for Project Oasis in Southern Europe. She coordinates a group of 12 researchers contributing to the European SembraMedia directory and related study. Elena collaborates with the regional research managers in Northern and Central/Eastern Europe, as well as with the director of Project Oasis.

She is a Sardinian independent journalist with a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages (Spanish and Mandarin Chinese) and is based in Barcelona, Spain. From 2017 to 2020 she was the deputy director of the National Geographic Storica magazine. She now combines freelancing with teaching engagement journalism and journalistic ethics with gender, class, and ethnicity perspectives. She also teaches constructive and solutions journalism for the BCN_NY master’s degree in journalism. The BCN_NY program is a collaboration between the Universitat de Barcelona and Columbia University.