Freelance on-air reporter and producer

Monica Villamizar is a three-time Emmy Award-winning Colombian-American filmmaker and war correspondent. She directed and produced the documentary TRANSITION, which premiered at Tribeca 2023 and won the Audience Award at the Berlin Human Rights Film Festival. She was a producer on Showtime’s series THE TRADE and National Geographic’s documentary THE FIRST WAVE. She was nominated for the One World Media “Journalist of the Year Award”.

Monica has traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Mali, Congo DRC, Mexico, El Salvador and Haiti and other countries, at times filming directly on the front lines. She has covered the drug wars in Colombia and Mexico, gaining exclusive access to cartels and smugglers. She covered the Arab spring, the war against ISIS in Iraq and the advance of jihadism in West Africa. In September 2019 she reported on an experimental Ebola vaccine and was a subject of the trial led by Dr Anthony Fauci. She covered the Ebola outbreak of Eastern Congo DRC until her team and WHO doctors came under attack by rebel militias. 

In her attempts to tell truthful, hard-hitting stories, Monica has been targeted by the Egyptian military which raided her office in Cairo and arrested her colleagues, and more recently by the Venezuelan Government who targeted her, labeling her a spy, and issuing an arrest warrant for her.

the editorial board of the New York Times backed Monica as a reporter, denouncing the Maduro Government.