About

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Angélica María Casas is an award-winning video journalist telling stories for BBC News. She produces, films, animates, edits and occasionally presents news videos and documentaries highlighting social and cultural issues, and how politics affects people. 

Her reporting and growing expertise on Latino issues have taken Casas to Latin America, where she has reported on the exodus of Venezuelans, the migrant caravans,  life after deportation and gun violence in Mexico. In November 2019, Casas and three BBC Mundo reporters travelled throughout the US to highlight the influence of the Spanish language and Latino community for a project called “¿Hablas Español?”

Casas holds a Master of Journalism from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where her thesis reporting focused on the long-term effects of gender violence in Juárez and the arrival of Haitian migrants to Tijuana. 

She is honored to be named the 2022 Multimedia Journalist of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association for her reporting on the pandemic, immigration and race relations in the US.

In 2021, Casas was the recipient of the Cecilia Vaisman Award, which recognizes audio and video journalists who work every day to bring to light the many issues that affect Latino and Hispanic communities.

When not in a newsroom or reporting, you can find Casas giving journalism workshops to high school students or shadowing her mamá in the kitchen.