Jesenia De Moya Correa

Jesenia De Moya Correa is an award-winning bilingual multimedia journalist who specializes in health and science reporting for Latino communities and their connections in the Americas.

She has written and produced audio segments, web series, reports, and engagement efforts at the intersection of science, community, and the environment for mainstream news media in the Caribbean and the United States. Her community reporting has been published by Listín Diario, Radio Santa María, Diario Libre, Salta Pa’Tras Films, Voice of America, El Diario NY, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she became the founder and manager for El Inquirer — an online Spanish-language news product she created to engage with bilingual Latino audiences in the Greater Philadelphia region.

Jesenia is a 2021 Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellow and a 2018 New Economies Coalition Climate Solutions Fellow. She was awarded the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s 2022 Diverse Journalist Award and the Dominican News Media Association’s 2013 Sustainable Tourism Award. A 2020 Lenfest Constellation News Leadership Fellow, she contributed to the Nieman Journalism Lab’s 2022 Predictions for Journalism package.

Born in New York City to Dominican parents, she spent her formative years in the Dominican Republic, where she studied communication with a minor in brand management at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. She earned a master’s degree in bilingual journalism with a minor in health and science reporting at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.