SARAH PETER

AFC SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE

Sarah Peter is a journalist from Saint Lucia. The former United Nations Journalist Fellow and foreign Correspondent for Reuters has an intense passion for human rights and climate change reporting. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Cardiff University in Wales and will be taking a break from journalism to pursue her master’s in political science at the University at Albany. Sarah has done foreign reporting all over the world including in Paris, Switzerland, London and New York but most of her reporting has been based in the Caribbean, where she is the brainchild of a human rights TV documentary series, OFF Limits and the Global Forum, an initiative aimed at bridging international gaps. Sarah’s work in journalism has also been recognized by the Inter American Press Association and the U-S Department of State. But her greatest achievement is creating initiatives to impact social change and policy.