My journalism work has been published in media outlets worldwide. Below are a few samples.
Source: a shorter version of this story was published on US News & World Report, 22 July 2019 If you knew that a return flight New York – Amsterdam is the CO2 equivalent of one thousand Big Macs, would you fly? The FlightFree 2020 campaign aims to make not flying as socially accepted as vegetarian…
Source: US News & World Report, 13 May 2019 The number of prisoners in the country has halved in a decade and experts say alternative sentencing programs can further decrease the number. by Danielle Batist UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS – Walking along the corridors of the creative work space that is housed inside the Wolvenplein prison, reminders of the…
Source: US News and World Report, 21 March 2019 Brexit’s uncertainty is pushing many Europeans to leave the U.K., and causing British citizens abroad to reconsider whether to return home. UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS — Joris Zwart lived in England for 20 years before he decided last year to move his family back to his native Netherlands. The ongoing uncertainty…
Source: Positive News, November 2016 With both youth depression and youth unemployment on the rise, calls are growing for a different kind of learning. Could ‘positive education’ enhance not just wellbeing, but academic performance too? Not many secondary school pupils would voluntarily join their teacher for an interview with a journalist during the summer…
In a stunning Scottish castle just outside of Inverness, I had one of the most special interviews of my career to date. For almost 40 minutes, I had an exclusive one-to-one with the Dalai Lama. I had secured the interview for the International Network of Street Papers. Through its news agency, street papers -sold by homeless people…
In March 2015, I travelled to Brussels to meet Arun Gandhi. The full interview will be published here soon. Meanwhile, here’s a shortened version, which appeared on Positive News in April 2015. When Arun Gandhi was 12 years old, his parents sent him from their home in South Africa to live in India with his grandfather, the spiritual…
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