Mexico
Chantal Flores is a Mexico-based freelance journalist who has worked in Toronto, New York, Ghana, Guyana, Colombia, Haiti, the western Balkans and Mexico. Her work has been published in Zora, Jezebel, Al Jazeera, Vice, In These Times and Rolling Stone México, among others.
In 200, she traveled throughout Central America to investigate the social impact of immigration and settled in Zapotitlán Palmas, Oaxaca, a rural community in southern Mexico with a high immigration rate. There, she taught a creative writing workshop at the community's middle school and created the bilingual blog, "Words of Resistance.”
A year later, she returned to Zapotitlán with award-winning filmmaker Stefani Saintonge to film two short documentaries: "La Bolsa,” official selection of the San Diego Latino Film Festival, and "La Tierra de los Adioses,” awarded Best Documentary Short in Latin America by Sonora’s International Film Festival in the Desert.
Since 2014, she has been covering forced disappearances and gender violence in Mexico. In 2016 and 2018, Flores was awarded the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship and began her book on the impact of enforced disappearance on women’s mental health and the transformation of family life. In 2019, she received the IWMF’s reporting grant for women’s stories from the International Women’s Media Foundation and expanded her scope to include families from the Balkans.
Flores is based in her hometown, Monterrey, working on her book about the enduring impact of enforced disappearance in Latin America and the Balkans.