ABOUT

Ania is an award-winning journalist, writer, and multilingual translator, and an editor who follows her curiosity wherever it leads her — and rarely does so in a straight line.

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After several years in the newsroom at The Santa Fe New Mexican, the oldest newspaper in the American West, she recently returned to independent journalism to pursue the stories that matter most to her, including investigations into gender-based violence in Mexico, Europe, and the United States, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) crisis in the American Southwest, immigration, borderlands, and homelessness.

 

Following the Story, Even When It Gets Uncomfortable

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Ania takes on freelance and investigative assignments across a multitude of disciplines, seeking overlooked stories, amplifying underrepresented voices, and finding fresh ways to make people pay attention.

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Her reporting spans nuclear photography, the arts, Native American and Indigenous affairs, environmental justice, and femicides; conservation, politics, food culture, migration, exile, asylum, poverty, homelessness, and animal rights. She gravitates toward stories that expose power, illuminate cultural complexity, challenge pre-suppositions, and reveal how everyday people navigate the world.

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Ania writes profiles, long-form obituaries, features, news stories, reviews, personal and reporter essays, and editorials. She often takes on the role of photographer for her own reporting, moderates panels at festivals and special events, leads workshops, lectures on craft, and participates in public readings.

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Equally at home across formats and genres, she follows the story rather than the formula.

 

The Many Academic Lives of a Curious Mind

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Ania’s flowing academic path reflects her restless curiosity. She holds two bachelor's degrees, in philosophy and Latin and in language acquisition; a research master's in sociolinguistics and linguistic human rights in colonial and postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa; an MA in creative writing; an MFA in creative and narrative writing; and a graduate certificate in editing. She has also pursued graduate coursework in news and long-form narrative journalism at several universities in the U.S.

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An Outsider's Eye, an Insider's Ear

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Ania has lived in 11 countries — France, Canada, Poland, Mexico, India, England, Italy, Zambia, Hungary, Hong Kong, and the United States — and traveled to more than 70 others, hiking and camping whenever possible.

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A former child refugee who grew up in a refugee camp and later a shelter in the heart of Paris, she is now a forever immigrant who has experienced first-hand authoritarianism, poverty, discrimination, exile, and human despair firsthand. These experiences have sharpened her understanding of injustice and deepened her trust in something that transcends borders: the extraordinary kindness of strangers. They have also helped her connect easily with people from all walks of life and corners of the world.

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Human Connection Starts with Language — or Many Languages

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Ania speaks French (metropolitan French and Québécois/Joual), Spanish, Polish, and English at a native level. She speaks intermediate Italian and navigates, to varying degrees, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, German, Portuguese, Cajun French, and Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen).

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Living across languages, cultures, and countries has shaped Ania’s approach to journalism and storytelling: how she listens, observes, builds relations, meets people where they are, adapts to new surroundings, questions assumptions, and tells human stories that cross boundaries.

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Based in the Desert, Oriented Toward the World

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A citizen of the European Union, Canada, and the United States, Ania is currently based in the high desert of New Mexico. She travels abroad regularly on assignment and has no qualms about jumping on a plane, train, boat, or bike with just a few hours' notice.

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Stories as Empathy Machines

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Ania's work rests on two convictions: the world is full of stories worth telling, and stories are empathy machines. She seeks those stories out, gives them the rigor and attention they deserve, and brings them to audiences who might otherwise never hear them.