Isabella Szabolcs is an award-winning video journalist currently reporting in Europe on the refugee crisis and other issues. She works as a stringer for Ruptly TV and as a freelance video journalist for AJ+. She reports, shoots and edits both deadline-driven and feature stories that focus on topics such as politics, human rights and social justice.

In the U.S., she's produced stories on the 2016 statewide, congressional and presidential races and reported on immigration policy, Native American land rights and Black Lives Matter protests. Most recently, she worked with a former AP and Washington Post journalist on a short documentary about the sanctions against Iraq. Outside the U.S., she has investigated health care corruption in Colombia, sexual violence in Haiti and women's rights in India. She's also traveled to Chile to research the Mapuche conflict and to interview survivors of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.

Her work has been broadcast internationally by AJ+ and Ruptly TV, featured in RollingStone.com and aired on the major U.S. television networks. In 2016, her documentary, Colombia's Ride of Death, won a National College Television Emmy in Los Angeles and an IMPACT DOCS Award of Recognition at The Global Film Awards Competition.

She holds a Master's from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, a Bachelor's from Duke University and a Certificate of Intensive Study in Globalization and International Affairs from Bard College in New York City. She speaks and writes fluently in English, Spanish and French.

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