Throughout my career I have been invited as a speaker to some events to talk about my work and my process. Media not related to me have also featured pieces of my work and conducted interviews on their pages. Here are some of those events and highlights.

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Speaker

December 2025. New York
Guest speaker to a class of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY), by invitation of Ronny Rojas, Adjunct lecturer at CUNY – Newmark J-School and hosted by The New York Times.

November 2025. New York
Live interview with Reuters reporter Ben Welsh about our practices in journalism, trust in data, collaborative reporting and a touch of the surge in artificial intelligence. Organized by The School of Visual Arts, SVA.

October 2025. New York
Guest speaker to the Datavis class of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, by invitation of Tandis Shoushtary, Lecturer of Data Visualization and Design.

October 2025. Lima, Peru
Virtual guest speaker to ‘Semana del Diseño: UPC (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas), by invitation of Raúl Rodríguez, Lecturer of the school of Design at the UPC.

June 2025. Miami
Speaker to the Outlier conference, invited by Data Visualization Society Amanda Makulec.

May 2025. Argentina
Guest speaker to a class of design of Belgrano University, by invitation of Gabriel Podestá, Professor at the School of Design of Belgrano University of Argentina.

March 2025. Boston
Guest speaker to the IDDV program of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, by invitation of PhD Sheila Pontis, lead of the IDDV program and Professor at Northeastern.

March 2025. Hong Kong
Guest speaker to a class of design of the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, by invite of Brian Kwok, Associate Professor at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

December 2024. New York
Guest speaker to a class of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, by invitation of Ronny Rojas, Adjunct lecturer at CUNY – Newmark J-School.

November 2024. New York
Guest speaker to the Dataviz Club at Parsons School of Design by invitation of Ani Matevosian, member of the Dataviz Club at Parsons.

July 2024. Los Angeles, CA
Speaker to the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, NAHJ. I did a workshop for journalists on how to report on climate and environment using maps and visualizations with open source data.

July 2024. New York
Guest speaker to the class of visual Journalism at Columbia University by invitation of lecturer Larry Buchanan.

May 2024. Argentina
Virtual guest speaker to the class of Journalism at the  Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE) by invitation of Gabriel Podesta, Lecturer at UADE.

May 2024. Costa Rica
Virtual speaker to the class of Journalism at the UCR (Universidad de Costa Rica) by Invitation of Ana (Anny) Peréz Cortes, lecturer at the faculty of communication of the UCR

October 2023. Amsterdam
Speaker to Information Design Conference by invitation of editor in chief of the Data & Graphics department at ANP, the Dutch national press agency and organizer of the Information Design Conference Yordi Dam.

March 2023. Argentina
Virtual guest speaker to the class of Journalism at the Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE) by invitation of Gabriel Podesta, Lecturer at UADE.

June 2023. New York
Guest speaker to the class of visual Journalism at Columbia University by invitation of lecturer Larry Buchanan.

November 2022. New York
Guest speaker to a class of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, by invitation of Ronny Rojas, Adjunct lecturer at CUNY – Newmark J-School.

October 2022. Washington DC
Speaker to ‘Design Success’ at the Monaco Hotel, by invitation of Paige Connor, Director of the Society for News Design.

April 2022. Lima, Peru
Virtual guest speaker to ‘Otra forma de narrar: Infografía Periodística’ at UPC University (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas), by invitation of Rossana M. Echeandia Escudero, Lead Director of the school of Journalism and communication at the UPC.

March 2022. Columbia University, New York
Virtual guest speaker to ‘Points unknown’ at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation of Columbia University, by invitation of Juan Francisco Saldarriaga, Senior Data & Design Researcher and Michael Krisch, Deputy Director of the Brown Institute.

February 2022. Punto y aparte, Costa Rica
Virtual guest speaker to the closing ceremony of the class #12 of the Costa Rican journalist network “Punto y Aparte”. Joining the event titled “The Power of the images in journalism” By invitation of Yanancy Noguera, Director of Punto y Aparte.

November 2019, Infovis, Mexico
A talk with media professionals and students about my career in graphics. Part of the 2019 edition of INFOVIS visual conference

February 2018, Hong Kong Design Institute
A talk with students about the work made at the South China Morning Post graphics team

February 2017, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
A talk with students about the work made at the South China Morning Post graphics team

November 2017 The Society for News Design, London
A talk with media professionals about the work I was doing at the South China Morning Post graphics team. Part of the SND-London summit in 2017.

July 2017, Google APAC – “New Frontiers in Data Journalism”, Singapore
A talk with media professionals about the work I was doing at the South China Morning Post graphics team. Part of the Google News initiative in Asia-Pacific.

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Exhibitions

June 2017. Swing a Cat Art Gallery. Kowloon, Hong Kong
A collective exhibition of infographics named “Infografest” showing diverse print graphics and animations.

November 2018 Wild Mazzini Art Gallery. Turin, Italy
A collective exhibition of data art at WILD MAZZINI. Showcasing the piece titled “The power of your passport”. Originally published by The South China Morning Post.

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Features and interviews

Book citation
Infographics Design (BNN Tokyo) ISBN: 978-4-86100-933-4, 2014.
Book released on August 2014. Post entry link here.

Interview
Newspaper Design [ link ] May 2019
Feature on my career titled “Infographics should be simple, clean and easy to understand. Five questions for award-winning infographic designer Marco Hernandez”

Article
“Mapping the world’s growing plastic mountain, one bottle at a time”
The Tribune [ link ] October 2019.
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Article
“BACKSTORY-Mapping the world’s growing plastic mountain, one bottle at a time”
Reuters [ Link ] October 2019
The making of Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
The Functional Art [ link ] September 2019
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Article
“This sickening graphic shows how much plastic exists on Earth right now”
The Fast Company [ link ] November 2019
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
UK Online Journalism [ link ] December 2020
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “How powerful was the Beirut Blast”

Article
“We are drowning in plastic”
Ahead of the Herd [ link ] March 2021
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
Crunite Magazine [ link ] June 2021
Feature on my career titled “Data Visualization: An Interview With Marco Hernandez”

Interview
Malofiej Awards [ link ] June 2021
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Shifting smoke” as winner of best digital map in the 29th edition of the awards considered as the Pulitzers of infographics.

Podcast citation
American Scientist Magazine [ Link ] June 2021
Science communication episode. Citation of the Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Podcast Interview
Foreign Correspondence [ Link ] November 2022
Journalism and Correspondents podcast series by Jake Spring. Episode titled “Marco Hernandez – Graphics – New York Times”

Magazine article
Storybench, Northeastern University. [ link ] October 2022
“How Marco Hernandez visualized humanity’s plastic waste problem — and changed the way we think about pollution”

Interview
The Data Visualization Society. [ link ] April 2023
“A Chat With New York Times Graphics Editor Marco Hernandez”

Magazine article
Nightingale Magazine, DVS. [ link ] June 2023
“Five Reflections on Data Journalism by Marco Hernandez”

Interview
Newspaper Design Blog. [ link ] April 2024
“Infographics should be simple, clean and easy to understand: Marco Hernandez”