Helena Rodríguez Gómez is an independent Spanish journalist who specialises in collaborative, cross-border investigations, primarily focusing on environmental issues and human rights violations.
Her work covers a wide range of topics, including industrial and military pollution, carbon emissions, the degradation and restoration of ecosystems such as peatlands and wetlands, local renewable energy policies, water reuse and supply policies, sexualised violence against asylum seekers, and the role of rural women leaders in Colombian peace-building efforts. Her work has appeared in Climática, Diari Ara, Al Jazeera, El Salto and Mediapart, among other publications.
She is a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus Master's in Journalism and is connected to several European collaborative journalism spaces, such as Correctiv Europa and the Climate Arena for Journalism. She speaks Catalan, Spanish, English and French, and is currently learning German.
