Yael Berman is a Brazilian journalist working as a fact-checking reporter at AFP. While covering the pandemic, she took part in Infovacina programme, which connects journalists with scientists to improve vaccine media coverage, having won its main prize with her fact-check on why the COVID-19 vaccination passport should not be compared to certificates used in Nazi Germany. She is also the co-founder of Vozes da Floresta (Voices from the Forest), a project supporting young indigenous people to produce and publish stories on their people and territories.