Adele Santelli is an environmental journalist based in São Paulo who specializes in Environmental, Sustainability and Global Policies. She is also a Masters candidate in Environmental Science at the University of São Paulo and has worked in some of Brazil’s biggest newsrooms for the past 14 years. In 2021 she took part in the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism fellowship, at the University of Oxford where she researched on how to better tell environmental stories to help journalists report on some of the biggest crises of our time and, therefore, raise awareness of these problems.

She currently works as a reporter at TV Cultura, Brazil’s most prominent public service broadcast television channel, focusing her work in climate change and biodiversity loss. She is also a freelancer reporter for National Geographic Brasil, writing in-depth, long-form reporting on topics ranging from wildlife trafficking, plastic pollution, carbon markets, genetic diversity of endangered species, wildlife contaminated by pesticides and controversial infrastructure development projects in the Amazon rainforest.
In 2020 she received the CNT award, one of the most relevant prizes in the country, for reporting on the threat of roadkills to the Brazilian fauna and how transportation can lead some species towards extinction.

Fellow at Thomas Lovejoy Memorial Fellowship - United Nations Foundation, 2022.
Panelist - Mindspiration Day Climate Panel, Deutsche Welle/Berlin, 2022.
Lecturer - Global Minds 2022, University of Oxford.
Panelist - Trust in News - TIN 2022, BBC Academy.
Fellow - Climate Change Media Partnership - Earth Journalism Network 2019 - covering COP25, in Madrid.