Helena Lins is a Portuguese-born Bulgarian-Brazilian journalist with an ease of feeling at home around the world.

Through 10+ years of experience, she has lived in seven countries and travelled to several more, reporting on conflict, human rights and global affairs. She is one of the few Portuguese journalists to have reported from both Ukraine and Russia during the war.

Helena graduated in Journalism from Cardiff University. She started her career in documentaries before moving into daily news – different formats, but the same purpose: telling human-centered stories that contribute to a global outlook.

She is experienced in creative and field production, long and short-form writing, video and editing, and live reporting for TV and digital. She is fluent in Portuguese, Bulgarian, English and Spanish and gets by in French, Russian and Turkish.

Her work has been recognised with several awards including Honourable Mention from the UNESCO Human Rights and Integration Journalism Award and Best Documentary from the Portuguese Cinema Academy.