Writing.
“Women in Cold Water Surfing: A New Surfing World Defined by Women”
For my Master’s thesis I created an immersive article on women in cold water surf culture across the US, UK, and Ireland. Listen to a professional Irish surfer, a surf film maker, founders of an all women’s surf magazine, the More Women+ Surf collective in Maine and many more talk about the ins and outs of what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated space. I feature my own original photography, videos and exclusive interviews.
More Examples of my Published Work…
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The West’s Response To Ukraine Exposes Deep Bias In International Refugee Aid
In 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, many Western countries issued unprecedented refugee aid policies. As needed as these policies were in the face of an undeniably brutal war, they were offered uncharacteristically. In this article I analyze the complex interwoven factors, ceded in structures of racism and other biases, which lead to these aid policies being issued. This article was part of my work at the OWP.
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“Man of the Hole,” Last Of His Tribe, Dead At 60: What Lies Ahead For His People’s Home?
The last surviving member of a remote indigenous tribe dies in Brazil, leaving the land he called home in legal peril. In this article I examine the events which lead to his death and the deaths of the rest of his tribe and how this relates to the larger treatment of Indigenous Peoples and the rainforest in Brazil. This was part of my work at the OWP.
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Why Populism has Returned to European Politics
After the conservative majority won in Italy’s 2022 elections, putting the far-right party Brother’s of Italy into power and making Georgi Meloni the Italian Prime Minister, many feared the return of populism in Europe. In this article, I analyze the factors that have contributed to this multinational trend. This featured in the UCD College Tribune, the leading paper at UCD.
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Haiti’s Police Block City Streets In Riot Protest Following Officer Killings
Police in Haiti take to the streets in protest after more than a dozen officers across the small island nation were killed by armed criminal gangs in less than a month into 2023. They blame Haiti’s government for the lack of support given to the police forces as they try to take back control of the country from these armed gangs. Read more in my full article at the OWP.
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Drones v. Deforestation: The Amazon’s Indigenous Communities Fight Back
Indigenous leaders from Ecuador and other surrounding Amazonian nations gather at the COICA — Co-ordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin — conference demanding “No to mining, No to extraction”. These are the two leading causes of deforestation of the Amazon, along with agriculture which together has lead to over 4.9 million acres of deforestation since the 1990’s in Ecuador alone. Read more about about how Indigenous groups are increasingly taking measures into their own hands to fight back against this crisis. This article was written as part of my work at the OWP.
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What Will The Aftermath Of Hurricane Ian Look Like In Cuba, And Will The U.S. Play A Role?
Protests erupted across the city of Havana following widespread devastation from hurricane Ian, only further exposing the fragility of Cuba’s crumbling public infrastructure. With power remaining unrestored in large portions of the island, continuing food shortages and limited medical resources, Cuba made a rare request to the United States for humanitarian aid. Read more in my full article at the OWP.
My full body of work at the…
I worked as a senior correspondent for the Organization for World peace writing articles on a host of international crises. I used my International Relations degree specialization on Latin America to actively feature more stories from across Latin America — a region regularly underrepresented in US and general Western News. Take a look through my portfolio of stories.