Alarcón is a Chilean journalist and freelance reporter based in Santiago. She contributes regularly to El Mercurio and América Futura, the sustainability vertical of El País América. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and Grist.
She was a fellow with Columbia Journalism Investigations in 2020, and her reporting has been supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Gabo Foundation. She is also a past Joan Konner Fellow and a 2023 Pulitzer Center Climate Science Fellow. In 2025, she joined the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute.
The Horwitz Fellowship honors the late Tony Horwitz (1958–2019), a 1983 graduate of the Master of Science Program and winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for his work at The Wall Street Journal. Horwitz authored more than a half dozen books, including the New York Times Best Sellers "Confederates in the Attic," "Blue Latitudes," "Baghdad Without a Map" and "A Voyage Long and Strange."
The fellowship, which awards up to $6,500 to cover travel, research and reporting, is open to Journalism School graduates from the last ten years and supports reporting projects that bridge divides and promote equality and understanding. Last year’s fellow, Julia Shipley, ’20 M.A., recently published the first in a series of articles with The Philadelphia Inquirer on Dinah Nevil, a once-enslaved woman who helped Black Philadelphians escape bondage. Read the story.
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