Hi! I’m an independent journalist, editor, and fact-checker based broadly on the East Coast. Currently, I’m a reporting fellow at Renaissance Journalism and a fact-checker for Spotlight PA and Jewish Currents. Previously, I was a full-time fact-checker at The Nation and a reporter for El Tecolote, San Francisco’s Latinx newspaper. I’ve also fact-checked for Dissent.

I’ve written about inhumane conditions in ICE detention facilities, police violence, immigration, environmental racism, underground abortion networks, backlash to Ethnic Studies, soccer, the afterlives of Latin American dictatorships, and more for publications like The Nation, El Tecolote, and Jacobin Brasil.

I hold a degree in Ethnic Studies and International and Public Affairs from Brown, where I was managing editor of The College Hill Independent and an editor for SOMOS Literary Magazine. I also speak Portuguese and Spanish fluently, and have experience reporting and writing in both languages.

You can contact me at mcavallaro@gmail.com. Find some of my writing here, and subscribe to my Substack here.