KQED Contributor
Maria Fernanda is a UC Berkeley J-School alum and was named Innovation Fellow in 2023. She was the 2022 White House Correspondents' Fellow and Cokie Roberts Scholar. In her time at the Investigative Reporting Program, she led an investigative team and received a National Press Award in 2025 for the story on Chevron's Manipulation of Media. She is most proud of her international recognition with the first place podcast award from the Insituto Mexicano de la radio in 2021. Maria Fernanda is a Bay Area-based journalist who is currently working as a general assignment reporter, weekend host and producer at KQED.
