Storytelling runs in my blood. A third-generation journalist, I developed an early fascination with the news from my grandfather, who ran the Associated Press for three decades. This fascination deepened while I was growing up in Moscow, watching my parents cover the end of the Cold War.

Now, I tell stories for a living as a correspondent and documentary filmmaker.

I've spent the past 15 years covering conflicts around the world, including the wars in Iraq and Somalia, the drug war in Mexico, political turmoil in Yemen and Egypt, and gun violence in Chicago. My work has won two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Livingston Award for Young Journalists, an Overseas Press Club Award, and nominations for four News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

While an undergraduate at Connecticut College, I made my first documentary, Left Behind, about AIDS orphans in Kenya. The film launched my career, winning over a dozen awards at film festivals around the world, including a Student Academy Award. I soon joined Current TV, Al Gore’s new cable network, where I co-created Vanguard, an award-winning investigative documentary series that ran for six seasons. At Vanguard, I reported from Mogadishu to Juarez, camped on the shores of Yemen as well as the benches of Zuccotti Park, and trekked through the jungles of Congo and across the Mexico/US border. After Current TV was sold to Al Jazeera America, I went on to serve as a senior correspondent for the network's flagship news magazine, America Tonight, dispatching over a hundred weekly stories from 30+ states, as well as Egypt and Iraq. After Al Jazeera America closed its doors, I hosted a 6-part series about guns in America for the company’s digital wing, AJ+. I’ve also hosted of Mission Declassified, a nine-part investigative series on Travel Channel. My most recent project was “American Jihaid,” an eight-part podcast series about one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists, Omar Hammami.

I'm proud to call Brooklyn home.