I'm an award-winning journalist, writer, educator and public speaker focusing on the climate and biodiversity crises as well as politics. As a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, I spent 2023/2024 focused on improving climate change reporting, As an instructor at Harvard, I help the next generation of storytellers develop the skills to report with curiosity and rigor. 

My features, profiles and investigations appear in The New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, The Washington Post, and on CNN, among many others, and have taken me to more than 25 countries across the globe. At the Miami Herald, I worked on the frontlines of climate change and won a Sunshine Award for investigative reporting.

I have reported on Hurricanes Helene and Milton, tracked down the world's most prolific wildlife traffickers, investigated the shady finances of extremist far-right groups and reported from Ukraine before and during the war. During the 2020 Vienna terrorist attack, I was the lead reporter for CNN digital, the Washington Post and AFP.

My writing and photography have also made the covers of multiple magazines, and I appear as an expert on TV and radio shows. Along the way, I've won multiple international awards, fellowships and grants. 

I can read and translate French, hold basic conversations in Mandarin Chinese, and have forgotten most of the Russian I learned at university. Home is where the mountains are. 
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