Annie Avilés is a bilingual (English/Spanish) journalist and researcher focused on the future of rural places. She’s produced stories for The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and others, and her reporting has earned multiple awards, including a Murrow, a Fulbright, and investigative fellowships from Johns Hopkins, NYU, and UC Berkeley. During 2024-2025 she was a Habitat for Humanity fellow in Chile, where she researched the role of embodied knowledge in rural communities recovering from forest fires.

Annie also works in audio, having been a South America correspondent for NPR and an editor on podcasts from Spotify and Vice, where she was co-founder of Vice Audio. She continues to consult with teams building new podcasts; if you’re interested in working together, please reach out below.