Anne Bailey

Digital producer for Across Women's Lives

The World

Anne Bailey is digital producer for Across Women's Lives, PRI's special coverage of gender equity and the role of women in society.

Anne is a photojournalist and filmmaker in charge of visual storytelling for Across Women's Lives. She commissions, edits and produces video, images, graphics and data for PRI's special coverage of gender equity and the role of women in society. 

Formerly, Anne taught multimedia storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and has taught at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, the University of Montana School of Journalism and the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute. She has also trained citizen journalists from the Democractic Republic of Congo, Tunisia and Libya.

Anne focuses her own documentary work on international and domestic human rights issues. Her stories have appeared on PRI's The World, GlobalPost, Reuters, News Photographer and PBS MediaShift among others. 

The new water-based process being used by some independent Mongolian miners can extract up to 80% of the gold from the ore and is much cleaner than processes using mercury or cyanide.

These Mongolian miners are making gold greener. Now they want their government to help.

Gold mining is a key source of income in Mongolia, but it can often be a dirty business. An effort by small, independent miners to switch to a non-toxic processing method is improving the outlook for their health and the local environment.

These Mongolian miners are making gold greener. Now they want their government to help.
A man walks on the roof of a traditional ger home while fixing the chimney of a coal burning stove on a cold hazy day on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Mongolian nomads say goodbye to herding, hello to smog

Mongolian nomads say goodbye to herding, hello to smog
World-renowned mountain trail runner Mira Rai on a training run outside Hong Kong.

How 'adventurer of the year' Mira Rai went from child soldier to ultrarunner

How 'adventurer of the year' Mira Rai went from child soldier to ultrarunner
Brandi King, a Nakota veteran who served in the Iraq war, has been at the Standing Rock camp on and off for several months.

Protesters at Standing Rock celebrate an unexpected victory

Protesters at Standing Rock celebrate an unexpected victory
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Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics

Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics
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Lindy Hopping down memory lane in Rio

Twenty years ago, videographer Anne Bailey traveled to Sweden to become a Lindy Hop star. She didn't make it — but recently she got to get her hop on with Rio's Lindy Hoppers.

Lindy Hopping down memory lane in Rio
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Brazil's microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits

Last week, Across Women's Lives photographer Anne Bailey spent time at a rehabilitation clinic in Recife, Brazil, for babies with microcephaly. She took portraits of a few of them with their parents.

Brazil's microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.

'We have a child with microcephaly, and we're happy'

Germana Soares' three-month-old son Guilherme has microcephaly. But she's determined to give him a normal life.

'We have a child with microcephaly, and we're happy'
The World

The joy of cooking — with cow dung

Kenyan scientist Joseph Lentunyoi explains how the daily manure output of just one cow can be converted into hours of cooking gas.

The joy of cooking — with cow dung
9 stories of amazing women we met this year

Meet some women from around the world who really inspired us this year

This year we talked about how women around the world are fighting for access to reproductive and civil rights, education and economic power. Here are a few women (or groups of women) who really motivated us.

Meet some women from around the world who really inspired us this year
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8 depressing/uplifting things we learned about women this year

We have compiled them in eight graphics to help you understand these eight issues in less than one minute.

8 depressing/uplifting things we learned about women this year
The World

She's one of only seven female guides in Kenya's Maasai Mara

Sophie Sadera leads visitors on safaris through the incredible landscape of Kenya, spotting elephants and even cheetahs on the way. She'd like to see more women get the chance to do this kind of work.

She's one of only seven female guides in Kenya's Maasai Mara
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Meet the Maasai women of Laikipia, in photos

These Maasai women of Laikipia, Kenya, have been working together to grow aloe for the international cosmetics company, Lush.. Check out this gallery of images of some of the women from the Twala Cultural Manyatta.

Meet the Maasai women of Laikipia, in photos
Wreaths and flowers line the fences around the Bataclan concert hall in Paris Saturday morning, where streets and courtyards became triage centers for victims after the attacks on Friday night.

Haunting images from the attacks in Paris

American photojournalist Shane McMillan was one of the first photographers on the scene of the attacks in the 11th district near the Bataclan concert hall on Friday night. He continues to cover the scene Saturday in Paris.

Haunting images from the attacks in Paris
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These are some of Ukraine's first women police officers. Thanks, in part, to the California Highway Patrol.

Photographer Misha Friedman spent time with members of the California Highway Patrol as they trained a group of women police recruits in Ukraine. Here's a look at the first wave of female officers.

These are some of Ukraine's first women police officers. Thanks, in part, to the California Highway Patrol.