Rafaela Cortez is a freelance investigative journalist based in northern Portugal.
Her work explores inequality, discrimination and the structures of violence that shape everyday life, both in Portugal and in Palestine, to which she returns every year to report from the occupied West Bank.
She is a co-founder of Raia Seca, a publication covering the borderlands between northern Portugal and Galicia, where she focuses on the extractive industries and intensive farming bearing down on its people, animals, rivers and mountains.
Her articles have also been published in Mondoweiss, Jacobin, ROAR Magazine, El Salto, Fumaça, Divergente and Público.
