https://www.juliocesarfornahj.com/my-platform daily 0.75 2026-09-23 https://www.juliocesarfornahj.com/talk-to-me daily 0.75 2026-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4bc0bc7e959a224c4350e3/1598882792353-Y74DQYG78E9FEPZAV9JE/IMG_0090+%281%29.JPG Talk to me https://www.juliocesarfornahj.com/about-me daily 0.75 2026-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4bc0bc7e959a224c4350e3/1598845464449-XKOED9U3E8FTVRO080F3/IMG_0469.JPG About me - Hi there I can’t ask you to vote for me if you don’t know who I am My name is Julio-César Chávez. I’m a video reporter with Reuters in Washington, D.C., born and raised in El Paso and Juárez. I got into journalism in high school, when I took broadcasting classes and fell in love with telling stories through video. In 2015, while studying at El Paso Community College, I was hired at KVIA-TV as a weekend reporter. That same year, I became an NAHJ member and helped revive the University of Texas at El Paso student chapter. I’m incredibly grateful for the decades of work by this organization, its members, and those who came before us that make a career like mine possible. At KVIA, I grew from a young weekend reporter into an on-camera journalist covering immigration, the border, and the people of my hometown. I also freelanced for news agencies and produced radio pieces for the BBC, learning early on that there are many ways to tell an important story. In 2017, I covered Hurricane Harvey with my best friend, producing 14 stories in four days. It remains the assignment I’m most proud of because it showed me what journalism can mean when people are counting on us. It reminded me why I got into journalism in the first place: our job is to make sure people are seen and heard, especially when their lives have been turned upside down. A few weeks later, I embedded with an Army helicopter unit out of Fort Bliss to cover relief efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. That assignment led to my first story for Reuters. I continued working as a Reuters stringer when I returned home, doing freelance work until I joined Reuters as a staff video reporter in Washington in 2020. I moved to D.C. that April because I wanted to be closer to my girlfriend. Four years later, we got married, and last year we welcomed our baby boy. My career has taken me far from the border where I grew up, but the values I learned there, community, determination, and compassion, have stayed with me. In 2026 I was fortunate to be part of the Reuters team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for our special reports on President Trump’s retribution campaign, contributing video reporting to several of those stories. I’m proud of that recognition, but I’m even more proud of the journalists I’ve had the opportunity to work alongside and the work we did together. I first ran for NAHJ Broadcast Vice President in 2020 because I believed our association could do more for journalists like me. Journalism is an industry that often asks people to make enormous sacrifices, and too many of our members are doing that work while living paycheck to paycheck. Freelancers, students, early-career journalists, and reporters trying to build a career without a financial safety net often have the fewest resources and the most to lose. Those are the members I want to fight for. I know what it is like to be a college student trying to figure out how to break into this industry. I know what it is like to work weekends, freelance on the side, and take whatever opportunity comes along because you believe in the mission of journalism. And I know how much an organization like NAHJ can mean when you’re trying to find your place in this profession. Decades of work by NAHJ and centuries of dedicated journalists who came before it opened all of these doors for me years before I even knew the organization existed. Now I want to help make sure those doors stay open, and that more of our members have the support, opportunities, and resources they need to walk through them. I’m running for president because I believe NAHJ has an opportunity to expand its impact and better serve the journalists who need us most. I’ve spent my career telling other people’s stories. Now I’m asking for your support so I can help shape the next chapter of ours. I hope to earn your vote and serve as your next president. https://www.juliocesarfornahj.com/404 daily 0.75 2020-08-31 https://www.juliocesarfornahj.com/julio-cesar-for-nahj-president daily 1.0 2026-09-23 https://www.juliocesarfornahj.com/my-work daily 0.75 2026-10-05