About
Isabella Szabolcs is an award-winning video journalist currently working as a stringer for Ruptly TV and as a freelance video journalist for AJ+. She reports, shoots and edits both deadline-driven and feature stories that focus on topics such as politics, human rights and social justice.
In the U.S., she's produced stories on the 2016 national and state elections and reported on campaign finance reform, immigration policy, Native American land rights and Black Lives Matter protests. Outside the U.S., she has investigated health care corruption in Colombia, sexual violence in Haiti, women's rights in India, the Mapuche conflict in Chile and the U.S. and UN sanctions against Iraq. Most recently, she report on human rights violations against Roma migrants in France.
Her work is broadcast internationally by AJ+ and Ruptly TV, was featured in RollingStone.com and has aired on the major U.S. television networks. In 2016, her documentary, Colombia's Ride of Death, won a National College Television Emmy in Los Angeles and an Impact Docs Award of Recognition at The Global Film Awards Competition.
She holds a Master's from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, a Bachelor's from Duke University and a Certificate of Intensive Study in Globalization and International Affairs from Bard College in New York City. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French.