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Amelie Baquero is an Ecuadorian-American journalist covering international affairs, foreign policy, and under-reported stories from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. She launched ameliebaquero.com in 2026 as the home for her independent reporting, analysis, deep dives, and weekly newsletter.\n\nBorn and raised in Ecuador, Amelie moved to the United States in 2019. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2026 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and international relations and a minor in French. She is now a master's candidate at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she is deepening her training in international policy alongside her reporting.\n\nAmelie discovered journalism as an undergraduate transfer student writing for the Dallas College newspaper. The experience clarified the work she most wanted to do: cover the people and places that don't make it into mainstream coverage, and report carefully on the international stories that shape lives far from where decisions are made. Her bylines have appeared in Her Campus and in earlier student publications, and her current focus is the reporting that lives on this site — investigations, foreign-affairs analysis, breaking coverage when she's close to a story, and a weekly digest that reflects what she's reading, watching, and writing.\n\nShe is bilingual in Spanish and English, reads at working level in French, and is most often filed from Austin or Washington, D.C., and on the road. She is interested in collaborations with editors at outlets that do serious international work; she also takes commissions, fellowships, and speaking engagements. For tips, pitches, and source contact, see the contact page.\n\nBeyond reporting, Amelie reads broadly, photographs the places she travels through, and rewatches Gilmore Girls more often than she will publicly admit. Her ambition is to be a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter, and one day to bring that work into the international institutions that shape global policy.