Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Barbara Matejčić is an award-winning freelance journalist, non-fiction writer, editor and audio producer focused on social affairs and human rights in the Balkan region. She won several awards, including European Press Prize (2024) and Investigative Journalism for Europe award (IJ4EU, 2024). The Croatian Journalists’ Association awarded her as the best print journalist in Croatia for her features about post-war societies in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She writes for Croatian and international media and produces radio documentaries for Croatian Radiotelevision. Barbara collaborates with activists, artists, and scholars in in various projects. She lectures at the Journalism Studies at the University of VERN’ in Zagreb.