Lucia is a British-Spanish multimedia producer, journalist and human rights researcher based in New York City. She is passionate about leveraging her experience in media and human rights advocacy to transition into the field of AI Safety, where she aims to help ensure emerging AI systems are developed responsibly and aligned with positive social outcomes. Lucia is currently pursuing a Data Journalism MS at Columbia University with a focus on AI systems analysis and governance frameworks.
Previously, Lucia worked as a Video Producer at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, where she reported on human rights violations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with a focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prior to that, she worked as a Producer for the Financial Times’ in-house creative studio and as a Staff Writer for The Calvert Journal, a leading publication for society and culture in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ceased operating in 2022).
Lucia is a confident filmmaker whose work focuses on powerful individual stories that reveal issues of global importance. Lucia worked as Production Manager on Finding Alaa, a BBC Our World, BBC Arabic and CBC BAFTA-longlisted short documentary that tells the story of families struggling to live with the consequences of acts of terror and the journey of one man's search for a child. Her award-winning directorial debut, The Dream of Karabakh, a short film about an Armenian refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh, was published by multimedia platforms openDemocracy and SIMA Academy.
Lucia holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Documentary from Open City Docs at University College London, where she also obtained an undergraduate degree in liberal arts with a focus in Anthropology and Communications.
