Leandro Barbosa is a journalist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has published in The Intercept Brasil, Ponte Jornalismo, Globoplay, El País Brasil, UOL, Yahoo, Agência Pública and in the American magazine Atmos. He took part in the Globo Lab Profissão Repórter, Globo's laboratory of ideas, where together with the Profissão Repórter team, he produced the report: "The Doce River from the perspective of the Krenak indigenous people - an approach to the impacts of the Fundão dam’s collapse on their daily lives."

He has covered GLO.ACT, a UN project against human trafficking and migrant smuggling. On that occasion, he was the only journalist authorized to accompany the UN team in places of high migratory flux in Brazil. Leandro has also worked for the NGO Oficina de Imagens, which has been developing educational communication projects for over 20 years. His trajectory earned him the title of “Journalist Friend of Children” from the NGO ANDI Comunicação e Direitos and UNESCO.

In 2020, he worked as a reporter on Projeto Solos, an initiative of documentary journalism with approaches on Human and Humanitarian Rights and Environment. In the same year, he also participated as an interviewer in the Roda Viva television program and in the project "The Amazon, between pandemic and destruction," financed by the Rainforest Journalism Fund of the Pulitzer Center.

In 2021, he was one of 20 Latin American journalists selected to participate in the workshop "Cobertura de la migración y su vínculo con el desarrollo sostenible" (Coverage of migration and its link to sustainable development) promoted by Fundación Gabo and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He was a student at the IOM University of Migration, where he learned to produce a report on the migratory flow in Latin America, with journalists from four other countries in the region.