León Hernández is a communications professional in Venezuela. His career began in editing and broadcast journalism at RCTV, a major independent news network. In 2014, Hernández joined the Central University of Venezuela as a broadcast journalism professor. Additionally, he led the press team for the political coalition Democratic Unity Roundtable. He and his team provided comprehensive coverage of the 2015 legislative elections. Hernández developed and implemented the communications strategy that led the Democratic Unity Roundtable to gain the majority in the National Assembly. Hernández aims to promote democracy through objective and uncensored media. Hernández was one of the four recipients of the McCain Institute 2018 Catalyst Fellowship, which he used to create a documentary on the life and work of Antonio Pasquali, the father of Social Communication studies in the country. Hernández is still working to create the first streaming TV channel of public service in Venezuela, in a severe environment.

After his time at The McCain Institute, he founded the Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News in 2019, a project that for five years fought political disinformation in Venezuela. Additionally, he has coordinated the Chapultepec Index of Freedom of Expression and Press of the Inter-American Press Association for six years, as a research professor at the Institute of Research in Information and Communication of the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB).