Sophie is an award-winning presenter and producer making documentaries and podcasts for TV and radio.
She has eight years experience working for the BBC, starting on news programmes at the BBC World Service and going on to produce radio documentaries and podcasts on everything from extraordinary personal stories to tackling climate change.
In 2024 the programme she presented 'How does war affect the climate?' won a Covering Climate Now award.
She has worked on TV documentaries for BBC Panorama, Channel 4's Dispatches & Untold, including the undercover investigation Inside the Shein Machine, which revealed illegal and inhumane working conditions at the Chinese suppliers of the world's biggest fashion company.
Sophie has reported and produced stories around the world, in Colombia, Somalia, Kenya, Mexico, the Canary Islands, Argentina, Poland and Senegal. In 2016 she won a fellowship from the International Women’s Media Foundation to report from the US-Mexico border on issues of migration and border life. She speaks French and Spanish fluently.
Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English and VICE.
Email her at seastaugh (at) hotmail co uk
