After working for SIC as producer and correspondent, she attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (New York). Since then, she has dedicated herself to reporting from danger zones: She worked undercover to report on the mujahideen crossing from Syria into Iraq; she camped in the Amazon jungle to cover the dispute between indigenous tribes and miners over the largest diamond mine in South America; and she travelled on the «Train of Death», which carries migrants from Central America to the US, etc. She has received several journalistic awards, as well as an Emmy nomination. She is a correspondent for National Geographic's Explorer series.