Journalist | Producer | Activist | Speaker
Constanza Eliana Chinea (She/Her) is a Boricua bilingual journalist and inclusive producer living in L.A.
She has contributed to the L.A. Times, KnockLA, The Young Turks, and Latino Rebels, LA Public Press, among others. In 2022 she co-hosted and produced the Spotify Original podcast Stranger Fruit. In 2024 she created Malcriá Media, an independent media platform focusing on social justice, politics, and culture, centering marginalized perspectives. Under Malcriá Media she hosts the Political Pendejadas podcast, covering political and social justice topics with influential guests. In the summer of 2024, she completed a disinformation fellowship through DDIA’s (the Digitial Democracy Institute of the Americas) Capacity-Building Program: Latinos, Media, and Democracy. She is currently a Politics and Statewide Policy reporter through UC Berkeley Journalism’s Local News Fellowship program.
Constanza Eliana grew up in Borikén (Puerto Rico) until her family moved to Illinois, just 3 hours south of Chicago, when she was 8 years old. The culture shock and the need to adapt and assimilate quickly created childhood frustration and trauma, having experienced racism and sexism in the States. It was this first-hand experience that led her to decolonization work and to unpack her own internalized oppression.
She began DEI consulting after noticing a need for anti-racist and decolonial advocacy in the wellness industry where she taught Yoga and Meditation for 11 years. She was featured as Well + Good’s Change Maker: People Changing the Future of Wellness in January 2021.
At the end of 2021, she began her shift into journalism, becoming a freelance journalist for Latino Rebels and other media outlets. In early 2022 she partnered with Donovan Thompson of The Grapevine to launch their show The Stranger Fruit, a Black and Brown-centered show discussing cultural and social trending topics.
In late 2022 she signed on to become a regular contributor for The Young Turks Rebel HQ channel, becoming one of the few Latina contributors and the only Puerto Rican contributor. By summer 2023 she was a regular contributor at the LA Times, reporting on Latino issues for their Latine initiative DeLos.
In 2024 she launched Malcriá Media, an inclusive independent media platform focusing on social justice, politics, and culture, centering marginalized perspectives. She launched her podcast Political Pendejadas as the media’s first project. In spring 2024 she was accepted as one of 12 disinformation fellows through DDIA’s (the Digitial Democracy Institute of the Americas) Capacity-Building Program: Latinos, Media, and Democracy.
She has been featured in Refinery 29, Latino Rebels, Well + Good, Forbes, Yoga Journal, and more. She has led signature workshops like “Dismantling Colonial Mentality” and “Unpacking Identity, Dismantling Power”.
She currently lives on occupied Tongva territory in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, 2 dogs, and 2 Guinea Pigs.
Decolonizing Media
Centering marginalized perspectives