Patricia Chanco Evangelista is a Filipina trauma journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Manila, whose coverage focuses mostly on conflict, disaster and human rights.

She went on to produce a number of programs and documentaries, including the groundbreaking narrative series, Storyline that ran over the ABS-CBN News Channel for five years.

She is a fellow of the South East Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), is a Titus Brandsma Awardee for Emergent Journalism[5] and was part of Devex's 2012 40 under 40.

[9] Evangelista's short film on the aftermath of Supertyphoon Haiyan won the media prize at the Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in Thailand in 2014.

In October 2023, Evangelista published a memoir, Some People Need Killing, about her time reporting on the drug war by former president Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.