Olivia Crellin
New York
Olivia Crellin is a graduate student at Columbia University's Journalism School. She specializes in international broadcast reporting, with additional training in investigative journalism, magazine writing, documentary filmmaking and business and economics reporting.
She recently won the 2014 Overseas Press Club Theo Wilson scholarship, and this summer she will be reporting and writing for the Wall Street Journal in Madrid. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Before coming to Columbia, Olivia freelanced in South America and worked for The Santiago Times, The Economist, Reuters and the BBC. She covered the 2013 Brazil protests for over a dozen print, web and radio outlets including The Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, USA Today, CBC, France 24 and The London Evening Standard.
She often writes about women's issues and has recently written stories on Brazil's child prostitution market for TIME as well as on abortion rights in Chile and labour rights of domestic workers in Ecuador, both for The Guardian.
She graduated from Cambridge University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.
Click the links below to read some of Olivia's work. You can reach her at oliviacrellin[at]gmail.com or follow her on Twitter @OliviaCrellin. You can see more of her work on her website: www.oliviacrellin.com