Where the future arrives, Tamoa has arrived before. Recognized as a pioneering leader in digital-era journalism and content creation, wherever media investigation, media literacy, prebunking, fact-checking, and understanding disinformation narratives are needed, Tamoa is there.
After leading investigative teams in Venezuela and being forced to leave a country that suppressed democracy and censored the press, she came to the United States to continue doing what she does best: journalism and leadership. She took part in major global collaborative investigations such as the Panama Papers (Pulitzer Prize 2017). Tamoa has led the two most influential Spanish-language fact-checking and media literacy units in the U.S.: Univision’s El Detector and Factchequeado, where she built alliances with more than 100 organizations in just two years. She trained her teams and more than 2,000 journalists and organizations with fact-checking tools, data management, and source verification in Spanish-speaking communities. She also co-created Lupita, a media-literacy cartoon designed to reduce disinformation among Hispanic audiences.
She has received multiple awards for her work in both Venezuela and the United States, including the Maria Moors Cabot Award and Journalist of the Year 2024 — John S. Carroll Award from the News Literacy Project. As a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow (University of Missouri, 2024) she created a guide for bilingual journalists covering Latino communities. During her John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, she explored new ways to confront disinformation in the era of Artificial Intelligence.
She serves on the board of Ipys Venezuela, an organization that has promoted investigative journalism training and recognition for 13 years. In 2022, she was named one of the 100 Most Successful Business Leaders by Forbes España. She has been interviewed as an expert by The New York Times, CNN, PBS, Reuters Institute, El Nuevo Herald, Nieman Lab, and others.