Javier Fernández Díaz

I wanted to be a journalist since I was ten years old. I have studied in Complutense University of Madrid and I started to travel around the world at the age of sixteen.

I was born in Cerredo, a small town in the north of Spain, with my umbilical cord around my neck. The doctor had to revive me. I had only seven months in my mother’s womb. Since then everything has gone much better.

When I was five, I started to write poems. It was my first contact with the letters world. When I turned ten, I was sure I wanted be a journalist. I was a curious child, always trying to know what was happening around me.

I’m passionate about international relations. I believe in Journalism as a space to reflect about the world and its borders so I started to travel around the world at the age of sixteen, I lived in London then, with a scholarship. I have lived in Dublin and Edinburgh too. Always without too much luggage. In 2008 I went to Madrid to study Journalism at Complutense University. After 4 years I decide to pack up and move to Bulgaria.

I worked as Social Media Manager and as a news reporter and in collaboration with the Solidarity Center Collaborations, I have already written 15 articles on social issues for South America: People only care about what happens to other people. I belong to a generation that thinks that Liberia, Gambia or Myanmar are Playstation games. Being informed is a duty. And in our days we have the best possibilities ever. I’m still looking for the best way to help build a better world.