Sibylla is seasoned journalist, story teller, researcher, analyst, and communications professional with more than thirty years of experience specializing in issues of human rights, politics, social conflict, and development in Latin America.
As a journalist she worked and lived in Venezuela, Chile, France the Dominican Republic and Colombia, where she wrote regularly for The Economist, and The Guardian. Her work also appeared in The Washington Post, Americas Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, MSNBC.com, USA Today, The London Times, Semana magazine, Time, World Policy Journal, Foreign Policy and on National Public Radio. Between 2017 and 2022, Sibylla was dedicated to advocating for the rights of refugees and others forced to flee their homes as communications officer for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. She is currently editor of the Colombian independent news portal Verdad Abierta.
Sibylla is co-editor of Throwing Stones at the Moon (McSweeney's, 2012, Haymarket, 2023), a compilation of oral histories from Colombians displaced by violence, part of the Voice of Witness series. She managed the production of The Mafia's Shadow in the Americas, a bilingual, multinational investigation on the human rights consequences of organized crime, which was a finalist for the 2013 Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.
Sibylla is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and writes in both languages. She is also fluent in French and can get by in Italian. She has traveled extensively in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Asia, as well her home turf of Latin America. Sibylla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in magazine journalism and political science from Syracuse University and studied international relations at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Paris.
As a journalist she worked and lived in Venezuela, Chile, France the Dominican Republic and Colombia, where she wrote regularly for The Economist, and The Guardian. Her work also appeared in The Washington Post, Americas Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, MSNBC.com, USA Today, The London Times, Semana magazine, Time, World Policy Journal, Foreign Policy and on National Public Radio. Between 2017 and 2022, Sibylla was dedicated to advocating for the rights of refugees and others forced to flee their homes as communications officer for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. She is currently editor of the Colombian independent news portal Verdad Abierta.
Sibylla is co-editor of Throwing Stones at the Moon (McSweeney's, 2012, Haymarket, 2023), a compilation of oral histories from Colombians displaced by violence, part of the Voice of Witness series. She managed the production of The Mafia's Shadow in the Americas, a bilingual, multinational investigation on the human rights consequences of organized crime, which was a finalist for the 2013 Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.
Sibylla is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and writes in both languages. She is also fluent in French and can get by in Italian. She has traveled extensively in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Asia, as well her home turf of Latin America. Sibylla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in magazine journalism and political science from Syracuse University and studied international relations at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Paris.
