Summary of Madison Activities
In Spring 2023, IRIS NRC had the pleasure of hosting Natalie Alcoba as a Distinguished Pulitzer Grantee Visitor. While at UW-Madison, Natalie headlined an IRIS NRC Film Club event, “The Struggle to Legalize Abortion in Argentina.” This talk explored Argentina’s path to the legalization of abortion, which occurred on December 30, 2020. Natalie highlighted the women who fought for legal abortion, and described why the movement succeeded after years of struggle. The event concluded with Natalie’s analysis of what the future holds for Argentina and other nations across the region in the wake of the Argentinian Senate’s historical vote.
Natalie’s Biography
Natalie Alcoba is a Argentine-Canadian journalist based in Buenos Aires.
She writes for numerous international publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Globe and Mail and VICE. She covers a range of topics, including the women’s movement in Latin America, politics, the economy, human rights and grassroots environmental movements. She has co-produced short documentaries on 100% inflation, trans rights, the impact of the pandemic on women workers, land occupations and the legalization of abortion in Argentina.
Prior to moving to Argentina, she was a reporter for more than a decade in Canada at newspapers such as the National Post, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, and the Hamilton Spectator. She served as managing editor of VICE News Canada for four years, shepherding coverage on national issues such as the crisis of unsafe drinking water in Indigenous communities and the opioid epidemic. She has also reported from Sierra Leone and India. She has taught at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), where she obtained her journalism degree.
Since 2023, she has worked as a writer and editor at Corporate Knights, a Canadian green economy magazine. Want to get in touch with Natalie? You can email her at: natalie.alcoba@gmail.com.