In 2014, I started writing about protest violence and corruption in Venezuela for a blog that I ran called In Venezuela.

In 2015, I joined the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto as a doctoral student. My doctoral thesis explored the role of armed civilian groups in the 2014/2018 anti-government protests in Venezuela. I successfully defended my thesis in 2022.

Since 2018, I’ve been working at Bellingcat, a world-class open source research organization with a mission to teach others how to uncover wrongdoing and document atrocities using freely available information and digital tools.

I started out as a volunteer, and was then hired as a researcher. Since 2023, I’ve been the Director of Research and Training at Bellingcat, where I coordinate all of our research and training outputs.

In 2023, I joined Utrecht University’s Global Justice Investigations Lab as an Assistant Professor. I co-teach a course where students learn how to use digital open source methods to investigate war crimes and other atrocities.

For some of my writing, check out my “Selected Works” page.

All of the views and opinions expressed on this site are strictly my own, and do not in any way reflect those of any of my employers.