Meet Siobhan O’Grady, @sio_ogrady “As a reporter based in Washington, D.C., I have the opportunity to regularly meet African leaders and diplomats, but not always the people who are affected by their policies. That’s why getting on the ground in South Sudan was so crucial to my understanding of the conflict there – and to the fairness of my reporting on it. In Juba, I was inspired by the resilience of an entire generation of displaced young people who returned home to help create their country, and by others who are fighting for their rights in U.N. camps, or risked their lives in treacherous swamplands to save strangers’ lives. As journalists, we owe it to the people suffering in war zones or other forced conditions to not only hold those perpetuating conflict accountable, but to share the stories of what’s happened to the people they’ve left behind.”

Photo credit: @sarahyltonphoto #IWMFfellows were on the ground in #Tanzania and #SouthSudan in May 2016 as part of the IWMF’s African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative (at South Sudan)