Born in:
Melbourne, Australia

 

Languages:
English and Deutsch

 

Degrees/Journalistic experience:
I started as a TV reporter in Australia in 1999 and have worked as an international correspondent and presenter in the UK, USA, and Africa en route to Berlin.

 

With DW since:
2016

Favorite quote:
“Every crow thinks its feathers are the blackest.”

 

My personal hero:
My grandmother, who used the above quote to describe the human ego. 104-years old when she died in 2018. A feminist who led with actions, she judged her own success by the strength of the family she built. She succeeded.

 

What do I strive to be as a journalist?
Unafraid to ask a simple question.

 

7 images that I can’t get out of my head

• My Dad, a news photographer, coming home with the evening paper under his arm
• Melbourne being shrouded in ash from nearby bushfires when I was a kid
• The Serengeti
• A funeral march emerging from a corn field in Malawi while I was waiting for a bus
• Kevin Carter’s photo: ‘Vulture and starving child’
• Donald Trump holding a bible
• Stefan Simons turning to admonish Minnesota Police when they had just fired on him