Gisela Perez de Acha
Lecturer
Alumni
Gisela Pérez de Acha reports on extremism and other topics for the Investigative Reporting Program with a focus on digital forensics. She is also a human rights lawyer, an open source researcher at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center Investigations Lab, and a trainer at Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps, a global network of volunteers who fact-check social media posts about war crimes and human rights violations. Born and raised in Mexico, Pérez de Acha speaks fluent Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. She has a master’s degree from Berkeley Journalism.