Simba is a former Free Speech Radio News producer who has been traveling in different parts of the world for years now, photographing and reporting stories from the Middle East and Africa, focusing a lot of her work on indigenous peoples and women. She’s now reporting from Thailand. Simba epitomizes the future of journalism: independence.
A self-taught storyteller, she believes storytelling is a sacred calling. And having spent many years in her late teens and early twenties living on the streets of NYC, working as a maid, and surviving, Simba’s insight about labor exploitation is a homegrown in the US of A schooling that informs the heart and soul and mind of her work. While she relies on donations to keep her online magazine, Migrant Stories, moving forward, her engagement with issues, such as labor exploitation and gender violence is fearless and generous.
Her latest issue of Migrant Stories features stories from ethnic Shan of Burma who are refugees in Thailand, a result of the Burmese government’s long-standing military assault on them for their land. And as is the case with many indigenous peoples forced to flee their homeland, the Shan fall prey to industries that use their starvation as a means to extract cheap labor from them to make things plenty of us guys pretend just showed up at Walmart on Santa’s sleigh. Have a read and consider supporting this amazing woman’s profound contribution to bringing us the stories and voices of people we would not otherwise know about.
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