About Simba Russeau: Photographer

Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau is an award-winning blogger, researcher, and multimedia storyteller with experience in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region and Southeast Asia with a strong interest in migration, race, human rights, gender, and African/Arab cultural ties as they pertain to the region.

In 2002, Simba covered her first foreign assignment in East Timor. Since then she has reported from South Korea, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, the US, Dubai, Egypt and Lebanon.

For 4 years she worked as an assignment editor for Pacifica Radio’s Free Speech Radio News. A daily national and international radio news program.

She has been published in World Environment Magazine, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Sowar Magazine, Le Monde, Internazionale, The Guardian Weekly, Inter Press Service, Menassat.com, Al Jazeera and the IRIN News Agency.

Her photographs and articles have been featured in Global Reporting Initiative’s and the International Museum of Women’s online exhibitions. She was also awarded the Every Human Has Rights Media Award.

Simba has conducted several workshops with street children, ex-prisoners, children of migrant workers and refugees on the use of photography and interviewing as a tool for self-empowerment in underrepresented communities as means of dealing with racism, poverty, prejudice and war.

She is also the brainchild behind the 24/7 Campaign and founder and organizer of the “Taste Culture” events initiative, which uses food from the countries of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, art and music as a means of raising awareness to Lebanon’s cultural diversity, sharing culture and combating racism.