Documentary Filmmaker
In 2016, Turner started freelancing for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. She reported on the refugee crisis in Europe and the Balkans, displacement emergencies across the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, migrant crossings in the Central Mediterranean Sea, droughts in Uganda and the Somali Region of Ethiopia, Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and more.
From late 2017 until 2019, she worked as UNHCR’s Africa producer and videographer, based in Nairobi and travelling widely to the deep field to report on some of the world’s most neglected humanitarian crises. In that role, she developed, filmed, scripted and edited stories, short docs as well as AJ+ style social media pieces, which were distributed to broadcasters and international agencies, like the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera.
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During Europe's refugee crisis, Turner produced news segments for major outlets like ITV News and CBS. She also wrote for The Wall Street Journal on the Greek authorities' failure to identify unaccompanied minors. At the height of the crisis, Turner served as NBC News' sole producer, covering the unfolding situation in Greece.
MIGRANTS ARRIVING IN GREECE FIND EUROPE'S WELCOME HAS WORN THIS | CBS News
Producer
Europe is re-thinking its refugee policy after more than a million people fleeing turmoil settled there last year
WOMAN DROWNS IN FRONT OF GRANDCHILDREN | ITV News
Video Journalist
A woman drowned in front of her devastated family as the Greek island of Lesbos witnessed yet another day of human tragedy on Friday. The 65-year-old woman, from Iraq, died at the bottom of the dinghy after it quickly filled with water and was left stranded at sea for around two hours. She died in front of her husband, son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
MIGRANT CHILDREN SEEK NEW LIVES IN EUROPE | Wall Street Journal
Writer
Thousands of unaccompanied children are believed to be making the trek across the Aegean and Balkans on their way to more affluent countries in Europe, fueled by youthful optimism and often the hopes of their families...
EVERYDAY HEROES: MEET THE GREEK ISLANDERS NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PRIZE | NBC News
Producer
More than half-a-million migrants washed up on the shores of the tiny Greek island of Lesbos in 2015 — and the flow of desperate people is set to continue.
MOST WANTED' HUMAN TRAFFICKER ARRESTED BY GREEK COASTGUARD | ITV News
Producer
A notorious human trafficker who made around €1 million (£746,000) in one day smuggling refugees from Turkey to Greece has been arrested since being caught on camera by ITV News at Ten...
ONLY ONE GRAVE LEFT: THE GRIM REALITY OF EUROPE'S REFUGEE CRISIS | ITV News
Producer, Writer
"If we dont get enough space; if more people die they'll be making it as far as the morgue and they'll be stuck there." This is the stark warning from an undertaker in Mytilene on a day when Lesbos was once again...
'I CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT': GREECE'S DAILY BATTLE TO SAVE REFUGEE LIVES | ITV News
Producer
In the space of just two hours this morning, 1,500 refugees made the crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos in rubber dinghies. At one stage, there were so many inflatables in the five-mile-wide channel that the Greek coastguard had to...
JUST IN TIME: MIGRANTS, REFUGEES RESCUED FROM THE AEGEAN SEA | NBC News
Producer
NBC News' Bill Neely joined the Greek coast guard on patrol in the waters between Turkey and the island of Lesbos.
THE 12-YEAR-OLD BEHIND BARS IN GREECE AFTER A PERILOUS JOURNEY FROM SYRIA| ITV News
Producer
As dawn broke early on Monday morning three little boats came ashore on the Greek island of Lesbos. They weren't the only ones that day - all along the shore flotillas of the desperate emerged in the morning light. On the first boat we saw arrive a...
THE MOMENT DESPERATE SYRIAN MIGRANTS ARRIVE ON A GREEK ISLAND BEACH | ITV News
Producer
“Excuse me, what country am I in?” - if ever a question summed up the desperate nature of the flight to Europe’s shores it was surely that. The person asking me was a young Syrian man who just minutes earlier had come ashore on Lesbos, one of Greece’s...
GREEK CASH CRUNCH GOES TO MARKET | New York Times
Producer
Athens’s Ichthyoskales fish auction is the largest in Greece, but capital controls and bank closings have hurt its ability to function.
A WAY OF LIFE DROWNED BY GREECE'S CRISIS | The Wall Street Journal
Producer
Greeks have earned a living from fish for eons, but six years of crisis has left this way of life in a shambles. Few think the woes will end soon.