Patricia Evangelista, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a Manila-based trauma journalist covering disaster, conflict, and human rights issues. She was a fellow at the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship. Her reporting on armed conflict as well as on the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan was awarded the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions.
Evangelista was a staff reporter for the Philippine news agency Rappler for seven years, where she produced documentaries and long-form multimedia reportage. She led the investigative team behind the Rappler series “Impunity,” covering President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. The series is a recipient of the Human Rights Press Award, three Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, and was a 2018 finalist for the Osborn Elliott Prize for Journalism. Evangelista is writing a book on the Philippine drug war.
Select Work:
- Murder in Manila: A seven-part investigative story and the first media report to name active police officers operating systematically in collusion with guns for hire, with the murders of drug suspects outsourced to a vigilante group in the nation's capital. (Rappler, 2019)
- In the Name of the Father: A multimedia story published six months after the drug war and is produced in the context of Catholic Philippines, bringing together six months of violence within the framework of The Lord's Prayer. (Rappler, 2016)
- Execution at Cessna: A story of a death in the early days of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, highlighting the personal cost of the demonization of drug use. (Rappler, 2016)
