Zahra Moloo

I am a Kenyan-Canadian documentary filmmaker, researcher and PhD candidate in Human Geography. My research focuses on biodiversity conservation in Africa, jointly supervised by Emily Gilbert and Kanishka Goonewardena. I received a SSHRC grant for my PhD research. Previously, I worked as an investigative journalist. My work has appeared in Al Jazeera, BBC Focus on Africa magazine, the Jacobin, Project Syndicate, Africa is a Country, the New Humanitarian and IPS News. I directed and produced documentaries for CCTV’s Faces of Africa series and for CBC’s Emmy-nominated documentary series, "Interrupt this Program." I have served on the juries for the Canadian Screen Awards, the Cuban Hat, and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and was a recipient of Hot Docs’s Corus Diverse Voices fellowship and the Talent Lab of RIDM festival. I also work with the ETC Group, an organization which monitors the impact of emerging technologies and corporate strategies on biodiversity, agriculture and human rights.