I am a writer and journalist focusing on human rights issues. My interests encompass livelihoods, identity, and migration. I’m drawn to stories about human resistance, strength, and frailty. My work also explores temporal and geographic ripples: how the past impacts the present and how distant decisions and actions are felt locally.

My journalism has been published in the Atlantic, Time, the Guardian, British Vogue, and many other outlets. My piece for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent features in a book of the best broadcasts of the decade. I have reported from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe and in 2019 was a recipient of a reporting grant from the Fuller Project for International Reporting.

I am also passionate about my corporate work: I design messaging, create publications, adapt research for different audiences, and overall help organisations with similar values to my own communicate their work.

Throughout my career I have drawn on my academic background, which includes a BA in social anthropology and an MSc in international development management, both from the London School of Economics, as well as an NCTJ in multimedia journalism.

If you would like to commission me, or discuss my corporate work, please email me: charlottehelenbailey [at] gmail [dot] com