Portia Ladrido is a writer and editor who specializes in long-form features on social justice, current affairs, and the arts. She is the co-founder of INKLINE, a media platform in Oxford, UK that focuses on solutions journalism. She is a champion of solutions journalism for the Solutions Journalism Network, a New York-based nonprofit that advocates for the rigorous reporting of solutions. Additionally, she drafts speeches, scripts, and statements for a democratic socialist senator in the Philippines.
Previously, she was an editor at CNN Philippines Life, the digital features arm of CNN Philippines. During her time at CNN, she was awarded the Human Rights Journalism Fellowship by the Philippine Human Rights Information Center for her coverage of social issues. The fellowship also allowed her to investigate the human rights abuses perpetrated by the military against peasant farmers in Eastern Visayas, one of the poorest regions in the Philippines.
She graduated with a Master's degree in International Journalism at Cardiff University, UK through an international scholarship awarded by the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Email ladrido.portia@gmail.com
