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Andrea Crossan

Andrea Crossan is the former Executive Producer of The World and former series director of the Across Women's Lives project. Andrea moved to Boston after working as a BBC producer in London. Before joining the BBC, she worked for a number of news organizations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Associated Press and NBC News.Andrea has reported from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Uganda, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Brazil, Canada, Nicaragua and Kenya. She has a Master's degree in International Journalism from City University London.She collects stamps in her passport and can pack for a three-week trip using just a carry-on bag. 
Sunflower
Why taking a sunflower selfie this year might cost you
Medium close up of Mo Korchinski sitting in a coffee shop.
Justice
Many women come out of prison with almost nothing. This woman helps them through the first 72 hours.
X-ray conveyor belt with luggage.
Justice
She was arrested for carrying a suitcase lined with cocaine into Canada. Her court case changed the law.
Two men and two women stand together next to a court house.
Justice
Can First Nations Court stop Indigenous women from ending up in prison?
Close up of the back of a woman's head looking out onto a skating rink
Culture
A Ugandan in Canada learns to skate
Mother and daughter
Economics
Working in a garment factory may not bring this mother and daughter long-term economic stability
Garment workers
Economics
Are factories better in Bangladesh after Rana Plaza? That depends on who you ask.
Thai women sitting on a sidewalk in El Monte, California
Economics
How a sweatshop raid in an LA suburb changed the American garment industry
Water falls from a pipe onto the street. A woman in the background is bent at the waist and washes her hair in the running water, while a man holds a child and watches the woman.
Economics
We asked Puerto Ricans about their future plans. Many want to stay and rebuild.
Team
Economics
Meet the women combing through Puerto Rico, searching for veterans in need
An elderly woman sitting on a porch.
Environment
It wasn’t easy, but we hand-delivered a letter to a grandmother in Puerto Rico
Janet Franceschini Colon (left), Jennifer Santos Franceschini (middle), Jenelyn Santos (right) and Jennifer's two daughters are pictured.
Environment
One Boston family’s wish to get a letter to their grandmother in Puerto Rico
Close-up of Saidy Brown wearing a gray shirt
Sexuality
At 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor
A woman in a baseball hat next to a man in front of the Johannesburg skyline.
Lifestyle
What it means in South Africa when you are #blessed
Close-up of woman holding white silicone vaginal ring
Sexuality
The key to stopping HIV could someday be a vaginal ring or a needle in the butt
Abu-Baker Sebeela stands in a tavern holding up a pamphlet
Conflict
Why violence is linked to the rising rate of HIV in South Africa’s young women
South African artist Lady Skollie on a sofa in her studio with cut-out shapes of bananas on the wall behind her
Arts
South African artist Lady Skollie explains why she paints burning vaginas
Children run past a mural painting of an Aids ribbon at a school in Khutsong Township, 74 km (46 miles) west of Johannesburg, August 22, 2011.
Media
Want to learn about sex? In South Africa, just turn on the radio.
Dominic Ongwen
Conflict
How do you judge a child soldier?
Prudence Mabele, an HIV activist.
Global Politics
Remembering AIDS activist Prudence Mabele
Walter Odong is a survivor of one of the first major ebola epidemics- which tore through northern Uganda in 2000.
Health
There’s a new Ebola vaccine — but the fight is far from over
Ugandan teacher Prudence Nandaula sits in an office in Kampala, Uganda.
Jobs
She thought she was going to be a teacher in Kuwait — instead she was trafficked
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe sitting on a bench in front of St. Monica's Vocational School in Gulu, Uganda.
Conflict
Sister Rosemary is a one-woman army in the fight against trafficking
Ugandan rapper Keko relaxing in a cafe in Kampala.
Music
Ugandan rapper Keko gets real about her music, her sobriety and her sexuality
It took Halimot years to gather the courage to escape her trafficker.
Conflict
Her family’s business was trafficking. But she broke free.
Toronto's High Park Zoo has some new residents. The zoo's pair of capybaras had babies. Here's one of the new family members.
Environment
These capybaras escaped the zoo for a summer of love. Now they’re back, with babies.
Hussain Manawer won a trip to space, but gets hassled flying on commercial flights.
Culture
He won a trip to space, but can’t move freely on Earth
This 7-layer torte cake is called a vinarterta and it's an Icelandic recipe.
Culture
Why Gimli Manitoba is the place to enjoy Icelandic cake
Montreal's ugly Christmas Tree.
Culture
Why Montreal has a Charlie Brown Christmas tree
Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S. at the Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals in Meribel, in the French Alps, March 22, 2015.
Culture
Get your cowbell ready. World Cup skiing returns to Vermont.
A man from the Muskogee tribe looks at the Oceti Sakowin shrouded in mist during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Belief
You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what?
Maple Match dating app connects Canadians and Americans.
Election 2016
Thinking about moving to Canada? Mais, non!
Singer-songwriter Rutaba Yaqub
Music
How a Saudi-born singer found her voice and her freedom in Pakistan
Shehzil Malik
Music
This artist draws the harassment she experiences on Pakistan’s streets
Girl holding sign
Justice
Canada launches inquiry into missing and murdered women and girls
Girl holding sign
Justice
Canada launches inquiry into missing and murdered women and girls
A large male grizzly bear nicknamed Bo Diddley grazing on sedge grass in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Environment
The fight is on over grizzly hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest
Grizzly bear cub in the Great Bear Rainforest
Environment
The Great Bear Rainforest is a model for how to save trees
Black Lives Matters protesters at Toronto's Pride Parade, July 3th, 2016.
Global Politics
Black Lives Matter protesters stop Toronto’s Pride parade
A beaver living in Vancouver's former Olympic Village
Environment
Vancouver’s former Olympic Village is now home to urban beavers
A woman is helped by medical staff abroad the Italian Navy vessel Vega at the Reggio Calabria harbor, southern Italy, May 29, 2016.
Conflict
Northward toward death: 700 migrants have drowned off Africa in the Mediterranean in the past week
Environmentalist Emily Kelsall holds up samples of gas pump labels.
Environment
A Canadian city is putting warning labels on gas pumps
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire in Montreal, Quebec, September 24, 2015.
Global Politics
Canada PM’s wife says she needs ‘a team to help me serve the people’
Maple Match dating site ad
Culture
Does the US election make you want to flee to Canada? Try Maple Match.
Military personnel stop a vehicle for inspection.
Conflict
Remembering slain Canadian hostage John Ridsdel
'Cop Light Bling' video by Nova Scotia RCMP
Culture
Watch these Canadian Mounties parody Drake in a road safety video
Canadian families seeking sperm donors tend to use US samples due to Canadian regulations on sperm donation.
Health
A US sperm bank is getting sued for presenting a mentally ill felon as a healthy donor
Hector Barajas at his desk with a computer at The Bunker
Conflict
At The Bunker, deported veterans recover from war — and look for a way back home
anne lindy hop 2
Arts
Lindy Hopping down memory lane in Rio
A marijuana farm in western Mexico.
Justice
Loosened US pot laws have sent Mexican weed prices plunging
Actor Will Smith poses as he arrives for the New York premiere of the film "Concussion" in the Manhattan borough of New York City, December 16, 2015. "Concussion", which stars Smith portraying Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who a decade ago first linke
Arts
Teaching American actors how to do African accents
New Scotland Yard
Justice
A new domestic abuse law in Britain targets controlling behavior
Flowers are placed on a memorial wall commemorating the late former South and North Korean "comfort women" at the War and Women's Human Rights Museum" in Seoul, South Korea, July 22, 2015. “Comfort women� is the Japanese euphemism for women who were f
Justice
Finally, Japan delivers definitive apology to South Korea for ‘Comfort Women’
Olive Wanjiru
Health
In Kenya’s version of ‘The Biggest Loser,’ contestants win for healthy living, not just dropping pounds
Rapper Stella Mwangi
Music
Kenyan rapper Stella Mwangi means business
Jun 27, 2015; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; Canada defender Kadeisha Buchanan (3) falls against England midfielder Katie Chapman (16) during the second half in the quarterfinals of the FIFA 2015 Women's World Cup at BC Place Stadium.
Sports
She’s 19. She’s just been nominated as the world’s best woman soccer player.
A DHS police investigator is seen with a canine at residential location following a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon October 1, 2015.
Conflict
Mexico to US after Oregon shootings: You call us dangerous?
Microbeads are found in this foaming scrub from Neutrogena.
Environment
Update: Why Canada (and now the US) is banning microbeads
Indian rapper Sofia Ashraf wearing the Don't Mess With Me t-shirt.
Culture
Don’t mess with me — that’s the message behind a Mumbai artist’s work
andie figure wax mumbai
Belief
On the ground in Mumbai with Across Women’s Lives: Wax figures in Bandra