Elisângela (Lili) Mendonça is an award-winning multimedia journalist.
She is a trilingual, London-based Brazilian journalist with over 15 years of experience in reporting, production, research, communications, fact-checking and complex investigations. Passionate about the democratic role of journalism, my core interests are public interest journalism, human rights and environmental issues.
Before moving to London in 2018 to pursue her MA in International Journalism at City University, Elisângela spent three years producing in-depth, creative, ambitious multimedia projects in Rio de Janeiro for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. She was in charge of the production of projects that have won international recognition – looking at everything from Amazonian deforestation to the spread of the Lava Jato corruption crisis across Latin America.
In London, she worked for Dow Jones covering private capital in Europeand then moved on to become the Environment Reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, where for three years she published award-winning investigations tracking supply chains and holding powerful companies accountable for their role in deforestation. She then worked at the non-profit climate organisation Global Witness, leading an initiative to expose the financiers of deforestation around the world. Since 2026, she is the Investigative Reporter at Mongabay's Global Desk.
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Elisângela speaks Portuguese, English and Spanish.
