Published Work

Writing & Radio

I have reported regularly for Inter-Press Service and Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) on Haiti since before the January 2010 earthquake. I’ve filed on everything from overwhelmed hospitals after Haiti’s earthquake, forced evictions of earthquake victims from settlements, aid distributions gone awry, criticism of at UN peacekeepers, Haiti’s disastrous first round in its 2010 election, and the tense lead-up to its second runoff round.

In 2011, I initiated and helped organize the exclusive provision of WikiLeaks’ cache of secret diplomatic Haiti cables to Haiti Liberte and The Nation magazine, and went on to author several stories based on revelations from the documents.  In August, I broke a major story on video-recorded abuse by Uruguayan UN peacekeepers with ABC News and Al Jazeera English, prompting a dozens of articles in the international press about the incident.

I’ve also authored opinion pieces published by New York Daily News and on the Huffington Post, including a blog post that went rather viral called “How to Write About Haiti” that was featured on the front page of Wired.com, along with longer-form first person reports like this one on riots in Cap Haitien.  A Mother Jones reporter wrote about the time I found myself facing the barrel of a gun while filming a protest.

Before leaving Austin for Haiti, I produced radio features for FSRN on shenanigans at the Texas legislature and the state’s immigration system.

Video & Photos

My photos are on Flickr and videos archived on YouTube. An example of a video short about conditions in Haitian tent camps, which I showed to Congressional staffers during a visit to Washington D.C. in April 2010, is embedded below.  I’ve also produced video used in reports for Agence France Presse, PBS NewsHour, and ITV.

Web Design and Flash

I’m proficient in front-end web design, particularly on the WordPress platform – one example is the brand new Seattle Globalist blog for the Common Language Project journalism nonprofit, another is Brownfemipower’s blog. You can also check out these two Flash-based interactive timelines I made about different periods of Haitian history.

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