workshops & training initiatives

CLIMATE COMMUNICATIONS
I’ve led 2 workshops on climate journalism for WAN-IFRA and Fathm, as well as given 3+ keynote talks on climate storytelling.


TRAINING INITIATIVES
I’ve helped develop and launch the award winning initiative My People, Our Stories at Al Jazeera’s Contrast to train and equip storytellers in the global south to tell their own stories. We’ve done programs in Za’atari refugee camp, Brazil, Los Angeles, South Sudan and the MENA region.

I’ve held 360 video training workshops in the Huff Post offices of Greece, Turkey, Spain, the UK.

I launched a citizen journalism program at RYOT where we produced over 80 pieces of content.

COLLABORATIONS
While at AJ Contrast, I remotely trained/equipped Yemeni journalists in 360 video to cover the ongoing war as part of a documentary project. The resulting documentary, Yemen’s Skies of Terror, was nominated for an Emmy. We then went on to produce Determined for Hope: Manal Al Amal.

I was the Executive Producer for RYOT’s Rio Creator’s Lab where we worked with local creators to create 360 videos around the Olympics.

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I taught a 360 Video in Journalism course at the Northwestern University in Qatar. I’ve also helped develop curriculums/teach at University of Florida, Iowa State University and University of Missouri to train students to cover the 2016 US Elections.