Roberta Staley

Roberta Staley is an author, a magazine editor and writer, and a documentary filmmaker who has reported from such places as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, El Salvador, Haiti, Colombia, Cambodia, South Africa, Israel, and New Zealand. She is the former editor of two national magazines and contributes to Corporate Knights, BC Business, Broadview, the South China Morning Post Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Trek, the Canadian Chemical News, and Sculpture, among others. She is a columnist for Just for Canadian Doctors and Just For Canadian Dentists magazines. Her first book, Voice of Rebellion, a biography of Afghan-Canadian human rights activist Mozhdah Jamalzadah, was released in Fall 2019 by Greystone Books.

Professional credentials and expertise

• Diploma Journalism, Grant MacEwan University
• Writing for Magazines