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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I am a Toronto-based correspondent covering Canada for the international news agency AFP

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ontario Bureau Chief at The Canadian Press, overseeing a team responsible for covering Canada's most populous province, with coverage focused in part on climate change, healthcare, the challenges posed by the rising cost of housing and fraught relations with the Indigenous communities.

Jerusalem

Helped lead a team of 35 reporters, photographers and video journalists across Israel, the WestBank and Gaza, with overall responsibility for the agency's English-language coverage of oneof the world's most highly-scrutinised regions.

Geneva

Responsible for covering the United Nations and other major international organisations inSwitzerland, including the World Trade Organization, FIFA and the International OlympicCommittee.

Lagos

Responsible for four countries, two Anglophone and two Francophone, in one of the world'smost volatile and vibrant regions, with primary focus on Nigeria.Covered a dramatic escalation in the Boko Haram insurgency, including the group's firstmass kidnapping of schoolgirls in 2014, as well as the first democratic transfer of power inNigeria's history.

Paris

Edited news and feature stories from across Europe and Africa. Managed and helped build the agency's English language social media presence, nowfollowed by millions globally.

Kampala, Uganda

Responsible for Uganda, with assignments in Kenya, South Sudan and the DemocraticRepublic of Congo. Covered the multi-nation search for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony in the Congolese jungle,the global effort to defeat anti-LGBTQ legislation in Uganda, and the country's drift towardsfull authoritarian rule.

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Master Of Science - Ms, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, History