Allison Cross is an award-winning Canadian journalist.
She recently completed a five-month stint in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where she did media development work for the Canadian organization Journalists for Human Rights.
Her work has appeared in many Canadian publications, including the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Canada Wide Magazines and Journalism Ethics.
She has blogged regularly for the online magazine Brave New Traveler.
In early 2009, she embarked on a trip to China to help film a documentary about the global trade of electronic waste, which aired on the PBS show Frontline/World in late June 2009.
In April of 2009, Allison was shortlisted for the Canadian Association of Journalists Student Award of Excellence.
While working as a reporter and photographer at the Nanaimo Daily News on Vancouver Island, Allison was nominated for a 2007 Jack Webster Award in Community Reporting for her work on a series about fertility and reproductive technology. She was also the recipient of the Jack Webster Student Journalism Award that same year.
Her interests include print, documentary and interactive online media that addresses the environment, health care, humanitarian issues, foreign policy, youth activism, women's rights and gender.
She recently completed her master's degree in journalism at the University of British Columbia.
In 2005, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, with a major in English language and literature. At the Queen's Journal, one of the longest-running student publications in North America, Allison served as staff writer, assistant news editor and opinions editor.
Allison also has experience in media relations, copy writing and search engine optimization, and enjoys amateur photography. She loves to travel and has visited Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sierra Leone, Australia, New Zealand, France, England and the U.S.A.
If you'd like to chat, visit the Contact page. Allison is also on Twitter and Flickr.