Katy is a journalist who previously specialised in human rights abuses and war crimes. She worked at the Institute of War and Peace Reporting as Justice Reporter, writing features and analyses about justice issues in conflict and post-conflict situations. She reported on war crimes trials at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Her most valued work was with journalists in the field, supporting them to tell their stories.
Before that Katy worked as a broadcast journalist for South Today, one of the BBC’s biggest regional TV newsrooms.
She since turned her attention to the climate crisis, co-producing and co-presenting a podcast with her friend Babita Sharma, ‘Mum, Will the Planet Die Before I Do?’ about parenting in the climate crisis.
Katy recently worked with CUSP as Advocacy Officer. She has three children, and is a trained horticulturalist.
Selected publications
- Priti Patel’s Policing Bill is just the start—as a war reporter I saw how human rights can be whittled away. Online at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-patel-policing-bill-just-start-war-reporter-human-rights-whittled-away-1340148
- Hope for Justice in Ukraine? Online at: https://iwpr.net/global-voices/hope-justice-ukraine
- Paying for Justice. Online at: https://iwpr.net/global-voices/paying-justice
- International Failures Prolong Darfur’s Misery. Online at: https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/download/print_publication/special_report_darfur_042011_web_0.pdf
- Uganda: Female Ex-Rebels Shunned by Their Tribes. Online at: https://iwpr.net/global-voices/uganda-female-ex-rebels-shunned-their-tribes