I cover the economy in Rhode Island as well as news out of Bristol County in southern Massachusetts.

I covered the U.S. Economy.

Covered companies operating in the business of foreign aid and the economics of global development• Reported on how multilateral development banks are working to secure climate financing for low-income countries’ efforts to adapt to climate change.• Wrote on how Europe wants the United States to use funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to help finance climate change mitigation efforts by emerging and low-income economies around the world.• Interviewed a top banking CEO on his bank’s transition into a green economy financier.• Profiled USAID’s first chief diversity officer and efforts to improve diversity at the $48 billion foreign aid agency.

I graduated with a Master's in Business and Economics reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Covered companies, the economy and sports in East Africa with analysis, enterprise and feature stories. • Reported on Kenya’s central bank’s response to the COVID-19 economic crisis, covered the Boeing 737 Max crash of Ethiopian Airlines, interviewed bank CEOs on expansion strategies of Kenya’s largest banks, Kenya’s fintech start-ups and mobile money, COVID-19’s impact on regional economies.• Covered the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo through exclusive interviews, such as with the great Eliud Kipchoge, wrote on deadline about men’s basketball and medal events, including marathons, 1,500m and 800m races.• Regularly edited breaking news from regional freelancers/correspondents and got them ready for publication.• Deadline Club Awards 2018 finalist as part of Reuters’ coverage of President Trump’s immigration policies.

Covered business, politics and the economy in East Africa’s second largest economy. • Report nationally on Tanzania’s business, financial and economic news.• Broke several stories including: on regulator approval of Tanzania’s biggest IPO, the reforms of the regulatory regime in the mining sector and exclusively interviewing World Bank president Jim Yong Kim.

• Spearhead the establishment of the country’s first-ever data journalism initiative.• Support civic watchdog organizations to harness new digital tools and open data to drive social change.• Helped a leading news organization start the first data journalism desk in Tanzania and experiment with drone journalism.

Reported on East Africa on the intersection of tech, politics, business, economics, sports and culture. • Provided compelling coverage of data-driven stories on African business, politics, and technology.• Helped launch Quartz Africa and advised the senior editorial team on best approaches and strategies to enter the African media space around audience targeting and newsroom partnerships.

africapractice was founded in 2003 to promote and support private sector-led development in Africa. We are a firm that blends the disciplines of strategic communications with political and business intelligence, market entry and issues management advisory services.

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program provides 10 months of professional enrichment and non-degree graduate-level study in the United States for accomplished mid-level professionals from designated countries.My area of focus was on looking at ways of doing business journalism using multimedia digital formats for a Tanzanian audience.

Haba na Haba is a weekly news magazine show that is broadcasted every Saturday on the BBC Swahili Service with its partner station, Radio Free Africa. The 30-minute programme gives local people the chance to ask questions of officials and government representatives. Along with covering issues such as poverty, infrastructure, corruption, education and health, the programme also highlights progress that is being made, and covers success stories on improved government services from around Tanzania.Responsibilities:- Managing a team of three producers/journalists in Dar es Salaam and eighteen reporters based in different parts of the country who file in weekly stories around a pre-agreed theme for BBC Media Action's flagship radio programme in Tanzania, 'Haba na Haba,' a hard-hitting governance programme with an estimated listenership of ten million people in Tanzania.- Deciding and and shaping the editorial direction of Haba na Haba, plus handle the programme's budgetary operations.- Developing and cultivating contacts and sources for the continued development of Haba na Haba while ensuring that the programme retains its editorial independence.- Contributing to the strategic direction of BBC Media Action Tanzania and helping to design future media products for the organisation.

@Mgahawa is a weekly half-hour news review show appearing on the regional channel, East Africa Television, on Sundays at 1.30pm and Mondays, 8.30pm. The show is a platform through which young Tanzanians engage and participate in lively and free flowing conversations about the big local and regional stories of the day.Responsibilities:- Managing a production crew of fifteen TV staffers while also shaping the content and editorial direction for this number one platform for Tanzania’s media, political and economic influentials and entertainment figures that reaches an audience of two and a half million Tanzanians.

THE EAST AFRICAN• Covering the media and economy beat in Tanzania that includes the evolution of the industry as it intersects with technology.• Profiling key political and economic influentials in Tanzanian and east Africa.• Reviewing books on politics, literature and art from east Africa and beyondVijana.FMContributing writer for this premier blog in Tanzania• I write feature pieces and interviews about art, politics, media.

Selected Casework:Non-Profit Fund – Strategic ThinkingFocus: Redirected the Fund's strategic direction to realize its mission and objectives. • Co-authored the fund’s multi-million post-pilot phase strategy.• Performed on-the-ground research verifying the impact of the Fund’s grants.• Conceived the Fund’s social media strategy and developed ways of incorporating it into the larger communications approach of the Fund.Non-Profit Business Advocacy Organisation – Media InterventionsFocus: Improving the organisation’s media component in its advocacy efforts• Performed media monitoring and structured critiques of Tanzanian business journalism.• Co-created and developed an objective methodology for an annual review of the quality of Tanzanian business journalism.Publisher – Media ProductsFocus: Evaluated the organisations’ print publications• Critiqued and assessed the content and look of its signature publication, arguably the most widely read magazine in Tanzania.• Analyzed and contextualized the role and place of the magazine in Tanzania’s media landscape.• Explored ways of turning the organizations’ media products from being donor-funded to becoming commercial, self-sustaining entities.