Shannon Sims

Print Journalist @shannongsims

Shannon Sims is the Economy and Government Editor for Latin America at Bloomberg, where she helps fine-tune Bloomberg’s reporting from across the region. She is originally from Texas but has been based in Brazil for many years and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. For several years she worked as a freelance reporter for publications like Bloomberg Businessweek, the Washington Post and the New York Times. She has reported untold stories from across the world, including through IWMF grants to Rwanda and Zanzibar.

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| Verónica G. Cárdenas, Shannon Sims

Undocumented, vulnerable, scared: the women who pick your food for $3 an hour

In the fields of south Texas Mexican women work long hours in dangerous conditions under the ever-present threat of deportation On a rainy, pre-dawn Monday morning in the fields of the Rio Grande Valley along…
| Shannon Sims, Claudia Prat

Rwandan Women Paddle Into the Male World of Fishing

“Now a woman can say: ‘I can build a house by myself. I can look after my family properly. And even if my husband dies, we can live a better life.’” Zawadi Karikumutima, a 34-year-old…
| Shannon Sims

A Rwandan Game Park Defying the Odds

Despite modest tourism numbers, Akagera National Park is a success story in the making, particularly considering that, like its host country, it survived catastrophe. A vervet monkey and her baby in Akagera National Park. The…
| Shannon Sims

These Women Were Told Not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team.

Away from the lights of the World Cup, on the African archipelago of Zanzibar, a group of Muslim women are challenging a culture that says only men can play soccer. Rukia Talib Yahya, 19, resting…