I was born in London on September 21, 1980 and grew up in Sussex. After studying journalism as a postgraduate at City University, London, I started my career as junior editor at the China Daily newspaper in Beijing. I began at IWPR in November 2007 and have worked on the ICTY/Balkans project as both a reporter and as a mentor to our interns.

I am also a producer on our Uganda Radio Project as well as of the On the Scale programme on Radio Darfur, a weekly investigative radio slot on justice issues in Darfur.

My interest in journalism began when I first visited post-apartheid South Africa in 1999. I saw a lack of public understanding and awareness of the complex issues surrounding poverty, conflict and post conflict situations. I went on to work on humanitarian projects in refugee camps for Sudanese and Congolese in northern Uganda during the LRA insurgency, which served to heighten these concerns and made me want to do something about it.

One of the most rewarding parts of my work with IWPR was training Ugandan journalists in Gulu, northern Uganda in September 2009, in preparation for Facing Justice, a new radio show, which launched in January 2010. IWPR now has seven broadcast journalists in the major towns in northern Uganda - Arua, Gulu, Lira and Soroti - producing a bi-monthly radio show on justice and human rights issues in northern Uganda.  

I am particularly proud of a story I wrote after my visit to Bosnia in June 2008. The assignment allowed me to write at length on the post-conflict situation there and the deep divisions that still exist between different ethnic communities today. Stolac: A Town Deeply Divided, highlights the extent of ongoing divisions between Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats.

The story highlighted the plight of people in post-conflict situations who still suffer long after the international spotlight has dimmed on their particular conflict or crisis. It also addressed the need to see peace processes through to their conclusion to prevent the outbreak of future conflict and, in this instance, the delicate situation Bosnia now finds itself in.