Screenwriter, novelist and mexican journalist. Last year, he collaborated as a staff writer on “Coyote”, a television series produced by Emmy winners Michael Chiklis y Michelle MacLaren. He is currently working on his third novel. Rafael studied Communication with a minor in Media Law and Politics and a second minor in screenwriting for Film and Television at the University of Southern California (USC). He began working as a reporter at Univision and Fusion Media Group in 2014. Eventually he joined the global team of journalists that investigated and published “The Panama Papers”.

Later he was a editorial director of a Spanish Language unit 14 journalists based in Mexico City where he interviewed figures like Edward Snowden and led his team to win the 2018 Walter Reuter German Journalism Award. He wrote columns as a guest contributor for renowned publications such as Foreign Affairs Latin America and Letras Libres. His first novel won the Sixteenth International Narrative Prize Awarded by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) the Colegio of Sinaloa (COLSIN) and the Siglo XXI publishing house. The book “Los objetos en el espejo” was hailed as a “splendid research work” by teh Mexican edition of Rolling Stones magazine. He is currently writing a series for Amazon.