Bio
Simba Russeau is an award-winning multimedia storyteller.
In 2002, Simba covered her first foreign assignment in East Timor. Since then she has reported from South Korea, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, the US, Dubai and Lebanon.
For 4 years she worked as an assignment editor for Pacifica Radio's Free Speech Radio News. A daily national and international radio news program.
Simba's work, as a photographer and writer, has been published in World Environment Magazine, Rolling Stone and Sowar Magazine, Le Monde, Internazionale, The Guardian Weekly, Inter Press Service, Menassat.com and the IRIN News Agency.
Simba's photographs and articles have been featured in Global Reporting Initiative's and the International Museum of Women's online exhibitions. Recently she was selected as one of thirty journalists for the Every Human Has Rights Media Award.
Currently she is working on multimedia essays documenting displaced faces around the world, migrant workers, Black Arabs and women in the MENA region.
She has conducted several workshops with streets kids, ex-prisoners, children of migrant workers and refugees on the use of photography and interviewing as a tool for self-empowerment in underrepresented communities as means of dealing with racism, poverty, prejudice and war.
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