• CEO and founding director of Black Mountains College since 2019, an institution devoted to creative and adaptive thinking in the face of the climate and ecological emergency.
• Author of three books: "The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth" (2022), "City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp" (2016), and "Radio Congo: Signals of Hope From Africa's Deadliest War" (2012).
• Served as a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's Africa division from 2006 to 2013, covering the Horn of Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zanzibar.
• Worked as a foreign policy adviser to the Liberal Democrats in the UK Parliament from 2002 to 2004.
• Contributed articles to The New York Times, The Guardian, and London Review of Books.
• Holds an MA in International Relations and Affairs from the University of Chicago and a BA in Swahili and history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

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