As of December 2022, I joined POLITICO in Brussels as deputy EU editor.
For my first POLITICO byline, I looked at how Belgium has granted teens the right to vote in the European election.
In November 2023, I switched into the role of planning editor at POLITICO.
I’m still happiest when I connect to content — that included developing and editing the first-ever Brussels Survival Guide catering to the new class of EU lawmakers, to which I could also contribute a tongue-in-cheek take on how to stay out of trouble in the European Parliament.
I was also able to combine two of my greatest interests — politics and linguistics — into a story about a language trend set to reshape Belgium.
Ahead of the snap German election in February 2025, I wrote about how the infamous German bureaucracy held up ballots for expat voters (including my own!).
And as the Brussels bubble swung back into action in September, I was very pleased to have worked across talented teams to shepherd through the back-to-school edition of the POLITICO newspaper.
Before I started at POLITICO, I was a senior editor and journalist at DW.
Having spent time in Venezuela in the past, I’ve followed what’s been happening there over the years. Joe Biden’s unfortunate policy to push back Venezuelan asylum-seekers at the U.S. border in late 2022 provided an opportunity to report on the topic.
When I moved with my family to Flanders in Belgium, I became enchanted by the melodic chiming of carillon bells ringing through the air in our city of Mechelen. Wait, what’s a carillon? You can find out by listening to the radio report:
As the party swept recent parliamentary elections in a country once known for its exceptional tolerance, I profiled the right-wing Sweden Democrats.