Brenda Medina is an investigative reporter for ICIJ.

Prior to joining ICIJ in 2021, she was a senior reporting fellow at ProPublica, in New York. Before that, Brenda worked for the Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald, where she reported in English and Spanish. At the Herald, she covered local government and immigration and worked on investigations about public corruption, housing and labor issues.

Brenda is from the Dominican Republic. She studied journalism and international studies at the University of South Florida and Hillsborough Community College, in Tampa, Florida.