Some of my first stories were from East Timor at the height of a terror campaign launched by pro-Jakarta militias against democracy supporters in 1999. Most nights, militias abducted scores of innocent people, many later found bound and dead in a nearby river. I watched an attacker slice through a man’s hand with a machete for trying to vote for independence after 24 years of Indonesian military occupation that led to the deaths of three-quarters of his people. I clutched the man’s hand trying to stop the blood.

Since then, I’ve written and produced video and radio documentaries about refugees fleeing government attacks in northern Thailand’s border regions and peace building efforts in its southern Muslim insurgency zone, tens of thousands of boys and men forcibly disappeared by government forces in Sri Lanka, extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, attacks on journalists and the civil war in Nepal, Tibetan refugees in northern India, and more.

My stories have been broadcast by CBC, PBS Frontline, SBS Dateline, VOA, and published by Reuters, AlertNet, Inter Press News Service, The National Post, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald and others. I’ve worked as a freelance correspondent, producer and video journalist with Associated Press Television News in Thailand and Canada since 2008.

I teach multimedia journalism and I’m currently an assistant professor in the Journalism program at Wilfrid Laurier University.

My current research focuses on a digital storytelling project I produced with a group of women reporters in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are risking their lives responding to sexual violence and ongoing conflict.