Laura is Maria Moors Cabot Prize Special Citation 2024, Knight Fellow of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), Ashoka Fellow, and, for more than a decade, was executive director of Chequeado, the first fact-checking organization in the Global South. She also created LatamChequea, a regional fact-checking network that gathers more than 40 media organizations in 19 countries to combat disinformation in Latin America. She’s president of the directive board of SembraMedia, member of La Silla Vacía (Colombia) and former member of the Advisory Board of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) since its beginning until 2024. For her work as a journalist, she has received numerous awards, including the Gabriel García Márquez Award in the “Innovation” category from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericana (FNPI) and “In-Depth Journalism" from the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).