Luis Velarde
Washington, D.C.
National news video editor
Education: Georgetown University, Universidad Privada del Valle
Luis Velarde is a video editor and video journalist on the national desk at The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 2018 after having spent years at Univision News, the Associated Press and BBC News as a multimedia producer.
In 2020, he was part of a team of Post reporters who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for its “2°C: Beyond the Limit” series, which showed that extreme climate warming is already upon us.
Luis has also covered earthquakes and unrest in Latin American countries, the plight of fishermen in the South China Sea, and more recently, the war on drug