Writing

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:

  • Is Brazil’s Government Rolling Back Women’s Rights? (Al Jazeera)

    Is Brazil’s Government Rolling Back Women’s Rights? (Al Jazeera)

    SAO PAULO, BRAZIL – In an abandoned building in the centre of Brazil’s financial centre of Sao Paulo, Marli Aguiar and a group of black women have come together to talk about one thing: what to do about Brazil’s new interim government. After only weeks in power, it has become clear that this new administration…

  • Why Brazil’s Art Scene is Fighting the Impeachment (The New Internationalist)

    SAO PAULO, BRAZIL – ‘Temer Out!’ ‘Against the Coup!’ and ‘Culture and Work!’ These are some of the signs plastered all over the walls of the Ministry of Culture building in San Paulo. Visual artists, filmmakers, designers, dancers, actors and many others have been occupying the building for more than a month, protesting the current impeachment…

  • What is Digital Humanitarianism and What Did it do For Ecuador’s Earthquake Victims? (The New Internationalist)

    QUITO, ECUADOR – After a massive earthquake hit Ecuador’s coast in April, the country was devastated. Entire towns were destroyed, hundreds were killed and thousands more left homeless. The scene was chaotic, and aid efforts immediately sprung up across the country. But this included more than donation points and people rushing to the coast to try…

  • Así se levanta un pueblo después del terremoto (Zoomin TV)

    Así se levanta un pueblo después del terremoto (Zoomin TV)

    CANOA, ECUADOR – Canoa, una localidad en la provincia de Manabí, Ecuador, lucha por resurgir de sus escombros. (Translation: Canoa, a town in the province of Manabí, Ecuador, struggles to re-emerge from its debris.)

  • Inside Colombia’s “Guantanamo Bay”: A Human Rights Nightmare (teleSUR English & Truthout)

    BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Ariz Carrillo spent two years and five months locked behind bars at one of Colombia’s maximum security prisons, La Tramacua ­– a place so renown for its human rights abuses that it has been dubbed “the Guantanamo of Colombia”. “For no reason, only because I was a political prisoner. They tortured me…