I am a Bucharest-based freelance journalist and political analyst covering Southeastern Europe, with a special focus on Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. I am a correspondent for De Groene Amsterdammer, BNR Nieuwsradio, NPO Radio 1 and VRT Radio 1. I am also the editor-curator of the Romanian Dispatch newsletter, editor-in-chief of Donau and regular contributor to Panenka Magazine.

Currently, I am an associated researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Social Sciences Division, where I conduct research projects on gender and politics  and on civil society organisations in the Black Sea region.

From 2016-2018, I was a correspondent in Beirut and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at Lebanese American University (LAU), where I taught courses on gender and human rights.

A political scientist and journalist by training, I have worked in human rights and transitional justice in post-communist Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa over the past 25 years. I have published on political extremism, migration, gender-based violence, citizenship and human rights.

My stories and commentary have appeared in CBC News, Courrier international, De Groene Amsterdammer, Deutsche Welle, Dilema veche, Jerusalem Post, National Post, NPO Radio 1, OpenCanada, taz, and de Volkskrant, among others.