Owen Kibenge

I am  a journalist based in Baltimore, United States of America.  I spent my early childhood on the slopes of mount Kenya where my parents were hiding from the heinous regime of Idi Amin. I learned how to read and write in Luganda, a local language spoken in the central region. Boarding a bus at the end of the school term each year, I spent my vacations grazing my grandfather's cows and acting as a scarecrow in the millet fields.I use my initial training as a priest to build trust among local communities. I layer this ability with skills learned from the evidence and inference class at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism which taught me how to make accurate and precise perceptions of people, places, and issues.  I have mastered narrative nonfiction writing, video production and editing, sound engineering, photography, and I can use these skills to tell compelling stories.