I am a Kenyan-Canadian researcher, journalist and documentary filmmaker. My work focuses on violence, biodiversity conservation, resource extraction and racial capitalism, with a focus on the Congo Basin. 

My articles and films have been published in Al Jazeera, the Jacobin, CBC Documentaries, Africa is a Country, The New Humanitarian, Project Syndicate and others.

I have reported and produced films from the DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Libya, Palestine, Tanzania, Kenya, and Burkina Faso. 

My work has ranged from investigating extrajudicial killings around gold mines in Tanzania, the militarization of UN peacekeeping in the DRC and the detention of African migrants in Libya, to writing about a Gates-funded project on genetically modified mosquitoes in Burkina Faso, about violence and conservation in Kenya and Cameroon, and covering environmental activists fighting AI.  

Previously, I worked for The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) as a reporter and producer, and for the ETC Group, an organization that monitors the impact of emerging technologies and corporate strategies on biodiversity, agriculture and human rights.

I served on the juries for the Canadian Screen Awards, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and Longue Vue sur le court, and I am on the board of the Global Justice Ecology Project.

I am currently a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto. My research looks at violence, conservation and forest geographies in the Congo Basin. I am also working on a feature film about conservation.