Sibylla has spent more than 20 years writing about Latin American politics, human rights and social issues. She has worked and lived in Venezuela, Chile, and the Dominican Republic and currently is based in Colombia as a freelance journalist, writing regularly for The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Guardian. Her work has also appeared in TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, MSNBC.com, USA Today, The London Times, PODER Magazine, and on National Public Radio.
Sibylla is co-editor, with Max Schoening, of Throwing Stones at the Moon (McSweeney's, 2012), a compilation of oral histories form Colombians displaced by violence, part of the Voice of Witness series.
During her career, Sibylla has covered financial meltdown in Argentina, social transformation in Venezuela, coups in Ecuador, a hostage siege in Peru, and rebellion in Haiti. In Colombia, Sibylla has written about peace talks between the government and leftist rebels, the drama of internal displacement, submarines used by drug traffickers to export their goods, the search for more than 30,000 people forcibly disappeared, and decades-old land disputes. She has also traveled extensively in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Asia.
Sibylla is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and writes in both languages. She is also fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. She 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.
Sibylla is co-editor, with Max Schoening, of Throwing Stones at the Moon (McSweeney's, 2012), a compilation of oral histories form Colombians displaced by violence, part of the Voice of Witness series.
During her career, Sibylla has covered financial meltdown in Argentina, social transformation in Venezuela, coups in Ecuador, a hostage siege in Peru, and rebellion in Haiti. In Colombia, Sibylla has written about peace talks between the government and leftist rebels, the drama of internal displacement, submarines used by drug traffickers to export their goods, the search for more than 30,000 people forcibly disappeared, and decades-old land disputes. She has also traveled extensively in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Asia.
Sibylla is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and writes in both languages. She is also fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. She 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.
