I am an award-winning data and investigative journalist. My reporting focuses on conflict, migration and corruption, and identifying patterns and links between individuals, groups and countries that contribute to these.
I also train journalists, students, lawyers and researchers on journalism skills and investigating human rights violations, and develop methodological and ethical guidelines for this work.
What I offer:
Written reports
TV and radio packages
Voiceovers and translations
Data analysis and visualisation
Instructional guides and course curriculum
Workshop facilitation and media trainings
Research and human rights reports
Grant applications
What I’ve done:
Ochberg Fellow through the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma, 2022
NewsCorp News Media Fellow through the ICFJ, 2020
Third Place Philip Meyer Award for Forced Out: Measuring the scale of conflict in South Sudan, IRE, 2019
Journalism project on food prices in South Sudan produced for the Washington Post shortlisted for Public Choice Award, Data Journalism Awards, 2019
Contributed to the Exposing the Invisible: The Kit investigative tool kit, 2018
Visiting Journalist in Forestry at the University of British Columbia, 2018
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee, 2017.
Finalist for business writing, Windsor Star team, at the Ontario Newspaper Awards, 2017
Participant in the Investigative Journalism Intensive at the Banff Centre for the Arts, 2017
Honourable mention for MJ Bear Fellowship, through the Online News Association, 2015
Winner of online multimedia special project, through the Ontario Newspaper Awards, 2015
Silver finalist for the Jim MacNeill New Journalist Award, Atlantic Journalism Awards, 2012
Where I’ve spoken:
NICAR (New Orleans, USA, 2020, Newport Beach, USA, 2019)
MezhyhiryaFest (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019)
International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy, 2019)
DataDriven 2.0 (Toronto, Canada, 2018)
Mozilla Festival (London, UK, 2018)
The Democracy Project: Journalism in the Age of Alt-Facts (Banff, Canada, 2017)
Where to find my work:
Al Jazeera, The Calgary Herald, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, The Daily Voice, The Edmonton Journal, Enquête, The Financial Post, France 24, Global Investigative Journalism Network, IJNET, Maclean’s Magazine, Makeshift Magazine, Malnutrition Deeply, Marketplace, The Montreal Gazette, National Public Radio, The Ottawa Citizen, Radio Canada, Refugees Deeply, Roads & Kingdoms, The Sudanese Archive, The Syrian Archive, The Telegraph-Journal, The Vancouver Sun, VOA French, The Washington Post, The Windsor Star, The Walrus, The Yemeni Archive (alphabetical order).