My reporting puts people, communities and their experiences first.
I seek out stories about environment or human rights issues, and where they intertwine, and try to put the people and communities most affected by these issues at the heart of the story.
In 2021, I received a grant from the local TOA-GK (Todos los Ojos en la Amazonia) for In-depth Journalism in the Amazon, and in 2018 was a recipient of the Casa Socio-Environmental Fund for environmental reporting.
Some select publications:
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‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence (The Guardian)
QUITO, ECUADOR – In a small corner of Ecuador’s Yasuní national park is the village of Llanchama. This Indigenous Quichua community is carved out of the dense Amazonian rainforest along the Tiputini River. But for nearly 10 years an entirely different development has been attempting to establish itself on the village’s borders: the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT)…
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Crude Awakening: Why Ecuador voted to stop drilling in the Amazon (Climate One, podcast)
YASUNI, ECUADOR – Was happy to work on this podcast about the Yasuni referendum in Ecuador, where the country voted to stop oil drilling in one area of the national park. I traveled to the Amazon, where locals actually voted to continue oil drilling here to find what was up with that. The situation is…
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‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’: schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares (The Guardian)
LAGO AGRIO, ECUADOR – Fourteen-year-old Leonela Moncayo gets angry when she talks about the gas flares burning near her home. She grew up on the outskirts of Lago Agrio, a city on the edge of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, at the heart of its oil industry, where patches of tropical forest canopy are interspersed with oil…
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Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts (BBC Future Planet)
QUITO, ECUADOR – Plastic bottles, sports balls, and what look like the wheels from a toy pram float down the San Pedro River that runs through Quito, Ecuador. They are on their way towards the Pacific Ocean, on a downstream journey repeated all over the world as plastic waste is flushed through rivers into the…
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Ecuador’s justice system awash with corruption and death threats (Courthouse News)
QUITO, ECUADOR – It’s been nearly three months since Ecuador President Daniel Noboa declared an internal war against armed groups operating in the country in an attempt to quell the recent escalation of violence. But a series of investigations has revealed how deeply entrenched organized crime has become in Ecuador’s highest levels of government, including its justice…
Kimberley Michelle Brown 