Multimedia journalist with a passion for human rights and the environment.
Before stepping into the world of freelance, Katie was a founding member of The Lush Times, an online platform for reporting the unreported, and was the co-editor of the revived Lush Times magazine. Her role as senior writer at Lush took her all over the world, producing multimedia content with a focus on ethical storytelling. She's investigated vegan activism in Toronto, spent time with regenerative farmers in India, and met Syrian refugees working as rose pickers in Turkey.
Katie writes about human rights, digital ethics, the environment, and animal rights. She's been published by the likes of The 'i' News, Index on Censorship, and The Ecologist and her work has been written about by The BBC, The Guardian, and The Canary.
Investigating refugee issues has taken Katie to places like Calais, Uganda, and Turkey, where she focuses on telling human stories, while her recent documentary series pilot Behind the Headlines takes a closer look at what it's like to be an asylum seeker in the UK. Her creative nonfiction story based on a woman's escape from North Korea was a runner up for the Fresher Writing Prize in 2017, and she was a finalist for the New Media Writing Prize in 2019.
As well as specialising in refugee issues, Katie focusses on the role of Indigenous knowledge in preventing environmental destruction. Exploring this topic has taken her to meet the Tiny House Warriors and Indigenous Climate Action in Canada, and to produce an audio documentary and written series with an Indigenous community facing destruction of their sacred natural site in Kenya.
With her feet firmly on UK soil, she's investigated issues like the UK's complicity in data-driven drone strikes, and the controversial undercover policing scandal, meeting women impacted directly. She's been on a 24 hour hunger strike in solidarity with Guantánamo Bay prisoners, and supported the campaign to get British citizen Andy Tsege released from death row in Ethiopia - breaking the news that Andy was home was her best day at work to date.
In 2018, Katie received a distinction in MA Journalism Practice from Bournemouth University, after focussing her research on ethical storytelling of refugee issues - a topic which she continues to speak about and explore.
Katie writes about human rights, digital ethics, the environment, and animal rights. She's been published by the likes of The 'i' News, Index on Censorship, and The Ecologist and her work has been written about by The BBC, The Guardian, and The Canary.
Investigating refugee issues has taken Katie to places like Calais, Uganda, and Turkey, where she focuses on telling human stories, while her recent documentary series pilot Behind the Headlines takes a closer look at what it's like to be an asylum seeker in the UK. Her creative nonfiction story based on a woman's escape from North Korea was a runner up for the Fresher Writing Prize in 2017, and she was a finalist for the New Media Writing Prize in 2019.
As well as specialising in refugee issues, Katie focusses on the role of Indigenous knowledge in preventing environmental destruction. Exploring this topic has taken her to meet the Tiny House Warriors and Indigenous Climate Action in Canada, and to produce an audio documentary and written series with an Indigenous community facing destruction of their sacred natural site in Kenya.
With her feet firmly on UK soil, she's investigated issues like the UK's complicity in data-driven drone strikes, and the controversial undercover policing scandal, meeting women impacted directly. She's been on a 24 hour hunger strike in solidarity with Guantánamo Bay prisoners, and supported the campaign to get British citizen Andy Tsege released from death row in Ethiopia - breaking the news that Andy was home was her best day at work to date.
In 2018, Katie received a distinction in MA Journalism Practice from Bournemouth University, after focussing her research on ethical storytelling of refugee issues - a topic which she continues to speak about and explore.