Flavie Halais is a freelance journalist and creative strategist based in Montreal, Canada. She has reported internationally for various outlets including The Guardian, Le Monde Afrique, Jeune Afrique, The Correspondent and Devex. She also consults on brand and narrative strategy for organizations, and writes a weekly newsletter, Flavie Friday.
Flavie’s work investigates how global identities express themselves through politics and culture. She has written at length about informal settlements, foreign aid, migration, cities and poverty. Her multiplatform project Refugee Economics, produced in collaboration with the European Journalism Centre, looked at the economic dimension of refugee crises in East Africa. Previous assignments have taken her to Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Haiti, Colombia, Greece and Brazil.
Flavie also advises organizations on various aspects of business intelligence, branding, content and editorial through her creative studio. Born and raised in France, she writes in English and French, and is fluent in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Selected publications
Making Public Transit Fairer to Women Demands Way More Data — Wired
Gentrification under Trudeau's nose: how his electoral district is struggling with evictions — The Guardian
Los refugiados urbanos quedan fuera de la ayuda internacional — El País
‘They call him the millionaire’: the refugee who turned his camp into a business empire — The Guardian
Looking to escape Trumpism in Canada? Think again — The Correspondent
Au Kenya, des réfugiés deviennent entrepreneurs et parfois… millionnaires — Le Monde Afrique
More than half the world’s refugees live in urban areas. Here’s what that means for cities — Citiscope/CityLab
Flavie ran Refugee Economics, a multiplatform reporting project documenting the economic dimension of refugee crises in East Africa.
Backed by the European Journalism Centre, the project led to publications in various major European outlets including The Guardian and Le Monde Afrique, and photo exhibitions in partnership with OECD, Amnistie Internationale Section Francophone, and Open Society Foundation.
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