Milli Legrain

Milli Legrain is a multilingual multimedia journalist and producer based in Washington, D.C. Fully trilingual (English,Spanish, French) and fluent in Portuguese. Twenty years’ experience in communications and journalism in the U.S, Latin America (Brazil, Mexico and Chile), Europe (Spain and the UK). 

She has covered two US presidential elections. In 2016, she was the Washington Correspondent for the digital arm of Univision - the largest Hispanic media organization in the US- throughout the election campaign and transition. She covered the 2020 election for Telemundo from Pennsylvania- the state that ultimately gave Joe Biden the presidency. 

She contributes to The Guardian since 2018. Her work has also appeared in Proceso magazine (Mexico), Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), Deutsche Welle (Germany), El Mundo (Spain), The Caravan (India.) 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, she wrote about lack of protections for farm and poultry workers. Previously she produced interviews with experts on immigration in Washington D.C for the Discovery Channel. 

She has excellent contacts across Latin America and within the Hispanic community in the US. Particular interest in electoral politics, immigration, and human rights. She excels at human interest features and often publishes her own photographs.

She has worked as a fact-checker and currently works as a TV and radio producer while continuing to publish her own stories.