Producing Partner to John Green
Executive Producer, Turtles All the Way Down feature film.
Producer: The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast, Dear Hank and John podcast.
Creator, Host and Curator: Life’s Library online book club with over 10,000 members since launch in 2018. Books include We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled, The House of the Spirits, Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Video Creator, Director, Producer
Creating videos about an array of topics: books, activism, mental health, popular culture.
UNHCR High Profile Supporter: Interviews with Yusra Mardini, Isabel Allende, Khaled Hosseini, documenting trips to the field in Jordan (Za’atari and Azraq camps) and video project with internally displaced young women in Chocó, Colombia.
YouTube Creators for Change fellow: Global initiative from YouTube to support and mentor creators using their platforms to address xenophobia and hate speech. One of the first 27 creators to be named a fellow by YouTube and receive at $10,000 impact project grant. Project: video workshops in Riosucio, Chocó, Colombia.
YouTube NextVlogger 2012: Recipient of one of 16 equipment grants given to up-and-coming YouTube content creators, selected by employees at YouTube.
Over 60,000 subscribers and 7.5 million total video views.
MSc Migration, Mobility and Development, Distinction
2022
SOAS, University of London - Department of Development Studies
Dissertation: A decolonial political ecology approach to (im)mobilities in the Darién ‘Gap’
BA (Hons) English with Study in North America, 2:i
July 2012
University of Exeter - Year abroad at Vassar College in New York, USA.
SOAS Academic Summer School
July 2021
SOAS, University of London - Conflict and International Development short course.
Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston upon Thames
3 A Levels, 1 AS Level - 2009
English Literature (A), Spanish (A), Philosophy (A), Geography AS (A).
9 GCSEs - 2007 6 A* grades including English and 3 A grades including Mathematics.
Languages: Fluent Spanish, basic French, beginners Arabic (Levantine).