CV and Portfolio

I try to write outside of work. Some days it feels like my fingertips are tap dancing furiously across my keyboard, while on other days, the only thing I can type after eight hours of emails and meetings is ‘pizza’ into a delivery app.

The arc of my career has taken me from an intern’s desk at an NGO to digital project management as a content manager and a sustainability consultant in tourism. The transferrable skills that carried me across all my roles and industries have been my soft skills: writing, people management, and problem-solving. I also spoke at TEDxBarcelona once.

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Continuous Improvement

Never too old to learn. There are too many courses out there that I’d love to take on, but here are the big ones that I was able to complete and pass. The Certificate in Regenerative Destination Management is a course offered by the GDS-Academy where the faculty and students are a mix of destination professionals, tourism academics, organisers of the UN COP, and more. I took this course in 2021 and was chuffed to get the certificate after 10 long weeks of studying.

Then at the end of 2022, I took the GSTC sustainable tourism course in Sevilla, completed the exam online, and received the certificate in 2023. On a Friday too, so that made the weekend all the more sweeter.

The KSO Standard is where I post about working at the GDS-Movement and my general observations and thoughts about sustainability.

Check out my writing samples, both professional and personal, below.

Travel writing at tajawal (now Almosafer/Seera Group, an Online Travel Agency) (2016)

Published personal pieces (2009-2015)

Business writing at Dubai Tourism (a government entity) (2017-2018)

Update: visitdubai.com recently underwent a site migration in 2021, which unfortunately resulted in the broken links to my articles below. Copies of the original articles can be emailed upon request.