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 thirty years. I have published on political extremism, migration, gender-based violence, citizenship and human rights.More...