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Ann Deslandes
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Writer and Researcher, Freelance
Mexico City
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Biography
Australian independent journalist, writer and researcher who has been based in Mexico City since 2018. I began freelancing full-time in August of 2016 when I covered responses of favela communities to that year's Summer Olympics while living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; at the same time I was learning from the Rio-based NGO Catalytic Communities about the role of international reporting in changing global narratives about stigmatised communities. These days, I report on the impacts of the 'war on drugs' and conflict between organised crime syndicates, especially forced displacement in the state of Guerrero; cross-border drug supply chains, especially opium poppy and marijuana farming in Guerrero; and on transnational mining projects in Mexico. My reporting on those subjects has been published in Diálogo Chino, BBC’s Global Trade, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and PRI’s The World. I also write, report and consult on gendered violence, social movements, LGBTQI health, community development, and migration. I am the creator and author of ‘The Troubled Region’, a monthly newsletter that tracks the changing face of foreign correspondence in a globalised, digitalised world.
Infrastructure, Local Government , Education, Council Matters , Sport, Human Interest Stories
Business, Fashion, Sports
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Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States