Journalism with a rights-based, youth-driven, and disruptive lens
Las Malmandadas is a Bolivian collective of young journalists that transforms journalism into a tool of resistance, memory, and narrative justice. Through creative expression and autonomous editorial practices, they amplify silenced voices and challenge the status quo.
Since 2025, they have joined the Nexus Core Team through a strategic alliance, serving as catalysts for new narratives that drive social change. Their incorporation embodies the very essence of Nexus: building bridges across generations, knowledge systems, and languages, while co-creating disruptive ways of envisioning development. From their communicational stronghold, they contribute a feminist, rights-based, critical, and deeply regenerative perspective to the social innovation processes we champion.
Karem Mendoza GutiƩrrez is a journalist and co-founder of the collective Las Malmandadas. She has worked in national print and digital media. Karem began her career covering politics and gradually shifted her focus to human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and social issues, driven by her studies in Feminist Thought and Non-Fiction Writing. She is a member of the Active Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights and the Technology-Facilitated Violence Prevention Network Entrelazadas. Her current dream is to tell stories through photography and venture into photojournalism.
Yercia I. MaƱueco Valdiviezo is a journalist and social communicator working as a freelance professional. She holds a specialization in Crossmedia Journalism and is currently pursuing a masterās degree in Project Management for Development. Yercia is a co-founder of Las Malmandadas and a member of the Active Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. She has worked in NGOs and has experience in broadcasting and project execution. She has completed courses on gender perspectives, human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and environmental issues. Her passion and commitment lie in making the invisible visible, giving voice to silent, ongoing issues through dissident journalism.
Nicole Laura Vallejos
is a journalist with a degree in Social Communication, specializing in Communication Planning and Public Policies, with a focus on gender perspective and equality in media coverage. She also holds a diploma in News Writing and Editing. Nicole has worked with the digital radio of the La Paz Journalists Association (APLP), the radio station CompaƱera, and the native digital media outlet Guardiana. She is a co-founder of Las Malmandadas, and some of her reports have been published in major newspapers such as PƔgina Siete and El Deber.
