Amy Costello says she contracted the travel bug during high school. That's when her family moved from a small town in Connecticut to Hong Kong and later on to Tokyo. Ever since, Amy's been hooked on seeing new places.

As The World's Africa correspondent, Amy has traveled extensively around the continent. In Kenya, she covered the elections, which brought an end to President Moi's 24-year rule. She traveled to Mombasa, the site of a deadly terrorist bombing, for a story on Islam in East Africa. Amy's reported on food shortages in Swaziland, Malawi and Ethiopia. In South Africa, she traveled two miles underground to report on grueling working conditions for HIV positive mineworkers, and she's reported on political unrest in Zimbabwe. Amy's reported many stories about children in Africa; spending time with child soldiers in Sierra Leone, child workers in Ivory Coast, and AIDS orphans in Johannesburg.

Amy attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her first job after graduation was working the overnight shift at NPR's "Morning Edition". She worked as a producer at NPR for three years before deciding to move to South Africa.

When she's not traveling, Amy lives in Cape Town. She spends her free time sampling South African wines, listening to new music, and dabbling in photography.