I am a Canadian journalist with more than 15 years experience, including reporting in the field, filming and editing my own television packages, as well as producing in newsrooms, covering some of the top international news in some of the most difficult places for journalists to operate in.

I am based in Berlin but also work abroad, most frequently in Turkey where I have reported from since 2017. I have also been based in Ukraine, Budapest, London and Toronto. I have been invited to be a guest speaker by Harvard, Amnesty International and the Canadian government.

Aside from filming and editing my own TV packages, I have reported for radio and print/ online, including for NBC, DW radio, and The Times, among others. In Istanbul, I was Euronews’ correspondent where I did packages and lives, sometimes with as little as 15 minutes notice. I also wrote for The Daily Telegraph and NBC, among many others. After a contentious mayoral election, I landed a sit-down TV interview with the winning opposition candidate, who is the leading opposition figure in Turkey.

While based in Ukraine, I covered the revolution in Kyiv, filing daily written stories for Al Jazeera amid sniper fire and spent more time in occupied areas than most Western journalists during my time there.

While covering the migrant crisis in eastern Europe, one of my videos for Al Jazeera received more than a million views online while another one got 500,000 views in one day.

I have also worked as a TV news writer and producer for CBC and CTV’s 24-hour news channels in Toronto and as a news producer for Sky in London.

I have a MA in journalism from the University of Western Ontario and an Honours BA with distinction, specialising in political science from the University of Toronto, ranked the 21st best university in the world by Times Higher Education.