My name is Alice Anna Verheij. A Dutch born female world citizen, writer, independent film maker and free lance documentary journalist. After an almost twenty five years career in Telecoms, Automation and Business Consultancy I changed my life at mid life. Life changing events took me to hospital and from that I made a difficult recovery. The last ten years have been influenced highly by these difficult experiences and have also formed the basis of who I am and what I do nowadays.
Since a couple of years I am working as a professional writer, independent film maker and documentary photographer. I mix social awareness with art and the results are articles, books, films, photo exhibitions and even theater performances.
In recent years I have come across the situation of the Bhutanese people living in exile, largely being disregarded by international press, media and politics. Currently tenths of thousands are being resettled in western countries like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, the UK and the Netherlands. In the largest third country resettlement project of the United Nations ever. I decided some time ago to make a feature length documentary about this.
The work for the Headwind documentary project (please check www.headwindfilm.com and www.empowermentfoundation.nl) has pushed my career in the direction of international journalism. To the extend that I am preparing for a long time stay in South Asia covering social topics, refugee affairs and political developments. Within a couple of month my basis for work will shift from The Hague in the Netherlands to Kathmandu in Nepal.
But I will still live and work in the Netherlands for some time every year.
I am listed with the Ducht Journalist Society (Nederlandese Vereniging van Journalisten) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiers) and have published for diverse media in the Netherlands and Nepal both online and on paper.
The following words of Steve Jobs have always inspired me, because it describes me pretty well.
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers,
the round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can
change the world are the ones who do.Steve Jobs, computer engineer and CEO of Apple Inc.
Next to my journalistic work I am also dedicated to the advocacy of the Bhutanese refugees issue and the emancipation of transgenders and lesbian women globally. I am communications manager for the Dutch based Non Governmental Organization ‘Empowerment Foundation’ that supports minority and women groups globally with small scale projects and at the same time returns that effort to western society in books and other media productions.
For more information about my work and my availability please contact me through social media, email or just call me. I am always interested in working for international media covering South Asia and specifically the Himalayan region. Want to know more? Google me, check me out on FaceBook (facebook.com/alice.verheij), Twitter (@aliceverheij) or contact me directly at:
+31 (0)6 1738 5526 (Netherlands) or when I am in Nepal on +977 9813 4645 11.
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Alice Anna Verheij
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