María Paula Ángel Benavides is a communications intern at the Democracy Institute. She is pursuing a master’s degree in Communication and Media Studies at ELTE (Budapest, Hungary). She has a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication with a minor in Editorial Production at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia).

She has worked primarily as an editor, copyeditor, and proofreader. In addition, she has some experience in content creation and internal and external communication. Her interests are related to media, journalism, editing, writing, and photography. Her current area of research is media and power.