about

I’m an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, telling engaging and often personal stories that shed light on important world issues.

I direct, produce, research and sometimes report short documentaries for international TV channels such as Al Jazeera English, SBS and CGTN. I also write in-depth and investigative pieces for the New York Times, the Guardian, Aljazeera.com, SBS and others. I mainly cover the environment, justice and health.

Since moving from London to Australia, where I now live on unceded Wurundjeri land, I have developed an interest in collaborating with First Australian journalists to report on Indigenous affairs.

In 2018 I won the Australian Human Rights Media Award and the First Nations Media Award for best current affairs story, along with fellow journalist Madeline Hayman-Reber, and was a finalist for Australian Freelance Journalist of the Year in the Walkley Awards. These were all for my investigation with broadcasters NITV/SBS, which revealed that thousands of Australian children and babies were criminalised just for being taken into state care before the 1990s.

As a result of our work the state government in Victoria passed new legislation to correct these records, and apologised.

Background
I trained as a journalist at Goldsmiths, University of London, gaining a masters with distinction. I initially freelanced as a print journalist while also working in environmental policy.

In 2011 I joined Al Jazeera English to become one of the core producers for earthrise – a multi-award winning solutions-based environmental TV series. In 2013 I also helped develop, launch and produce a new award-winning global health show for the channel called The Cure.

In 2014 I moved to London-based production company Banyak Films, where I directed as well as produced documentaries until late 2016. These included a 25-minute film about the growing anti-fossil fuel movement, and a 16-minute film about Syrian refugees undergoing reconstructive surgery in Jordan. I also became a proficient location sound recordist, recording sound on my shoots in Europe, the Middle East and the US.

I’ve won the Guardian’s International Development Journalism competition for my writing and my films have been shortlisted for the Foreign Press Association awards and the Al Jazeera film festival.

I’m a firm believer in rigorous solutions-based journalism – stories about how and why things go right – but I also have passion for muck-raking investigative journalism. I think the two go hand-in-hand.

I am currently working as a freelance producer/director and multimedia journalist in Melbourne, Australia.