Flavie Halais on Muck Rack

Flavie Halais

Verified
Montreal
As seen in: El País, The Guardian, Le Monde, WIRED Magazine, VICE, Nairobi News, Devex, The East African, Wired Japan, Eco-Business
Covers:  cities, global development, poverty, east africa, latin america, urbanism, architecture, olympics, mega-events, sustainability, informal settlements
Doesn't Cover: Breaking news
Back to Flavie Halais’s profile

Flavie Halais’s Biography

Flavie Halais is a freelance journalist based in Montreal, Canada. She has reported internationally for various outlets including The Guardian, Le Monde Afrique, Jeune Afrique, The Correspondent and Devex, and currently writes about cities for WIRED.

Flavie’s work investigates how global identities express themselves through politics and culture. She has written at length about informal settlements, foreign aid, migration, cities and poverty. Her multiplatform project Refugee Economics, backed by the European Journalism Centre, looked at the economic dimension of refugee crises in East Africa. Previous assignments have taken her to Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Haiti, Colombia, Greece and Brazil.

She writes in both English and French, and is fluent in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.

 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified