Portfolio
Here you’ll find my selected writing portfolio.
I’m a journalist for BBC Stories. My initial focus was on disability and women’s health, but I’ve shifted to more international stories recently (many of which are currently banked because of Coronavirus but will hopefully come out soon).
BBC World Service: The dying teenage who wanted world peace (and love)
BBC World Service: ‘The love letter to my neighbourhood that helped me flee my country’
Sick Magazine: Shaped by isolation
BBC Ouch: The Cabin Fever Podcast
BBC World Service: How Hollywood movies saved a gay Russian teenager. Spanish translation.
Wellcome Collection: How my wheelchair changed my life
BBC Ouch: The disabled teenagers whose identity crisis led them to a modelling career
BBC Ouch: ‘Getting a fashion fix as a disabled model’
BBC Stories: Emotional abuse: ‘My fiance seemed perfect – but he tried to control me’
BBC Stories: The Down’s syndrome troupe stirring up the drag scene (video)
BBC The Why Factor: Why Have Women Taken To Wellness (Podcast) (Consultant)
Healthline: How Getting a Wheelchair for My Chronic Illness Changed My Life
BBC Stories: ‘Why my daughter wants a hysterectomy at 15’
BBC Stories: ‘My periods made me suicidal so I had a hysterectomy at 28’
BBC Ouch: “It’s like PMS but a hundred times worse” (Podcast)
BBC World Service: This Food Will Save Your Life* (Podcast)
BBC Stories: How saving a writer’s life helped my dialysis app go global
BBC Stories: I made a film from my bed to show my illness is real
BBC Ouch: ME – The Movie (Podcast)
Healthline: Why Do People Fall For ‘Miracle Cures?’
Healthline: The Language We Use To Talk About Chronic Illness Matters
Healthline: How To Deal With #FOMO in Chronic Illness
British Dietetic Association: What’s The Harm (Video)
BBC Ouch: Rationing energy – and other chronic illness life hacks (Podcast)
Notable Achievements
Top 100 Creatives 2020: Creative Impact Co
Cultural Innovator for Flamingo Consultancy on Chronic Inclusivity
Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 (named one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK)
Keynote presentation at MS Sessions 2019 in Romania
Judge for Health Blogger Awards 2019
Top 50 influencers to look out for in 2019 from the Health Bloggers Community
Part of BBC Extend in Digital News
Rhize Emerging Catalyst – funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Winner of the Virgin Media Pioneers trip to India to meet Richard Branson
Co-Founder of internationally recognised project Libyan Youth Voices
Delegate at the British Council’s MENA Dialogues (2011)
First Class (hons.) Degree in International Relations
British Council Global Changemaker. Recipient of grant for a Community Action Project. Since 2009