Lucia Capuzzi is a correspondent for the Foreign Affairs section of the daily newspaper Avvenire.

Graduated in Political Science, she later earned a Ph.D. in the History of Parties and Political Movements (University of Urbino), conducting research on Italian emigration to Argentina in the post-World War II period. Since 2004, she has chosen to pursue a journalistic career by attending the master's program at Cattolica. Before joining Avvenire, she worked for Rai's Tg - Leonardo. She won the Lucchetta International Prize (2014) for an article on Bolivian child laborers, the Colombe della Pace Prize from the Archivio Disarmo (2016), the Journalists of the Mediterranean Prize (2018), the Parise Prize (2018), the Enzo Rossi-Altrapagina Prize (2018), and the De Carli Prize for religious information (2020).

She has published, among others, "La frontiera immaginata" (Franco Angeli, 2006), "Haiti. Il silenzio infranto" (Marietti, 2010), "Adiós Fidel. Fede e dissenso nella Cuba dei Castro" (Lindau, 2011), co-written with Nello Scavo, "Colombia. La guerra (in)finita" (Marietti, 2012), "Coca rosso sangue" (San Paolo, 2013), "Rosa dei due mondi. Storia della nonna di Papa Francesco" (San Paolo, 2015), "I narcos mi vogliono morto" (Emi, 2017, with Alejandro Solalinde), "Il giorno prima della pace" (Città Nuova, 2019), "Frontiera Amazzonia" (Emi, 2019, with Stefania Falasca), and "Un Continente in rivolta" (2020).

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