Monica Ellena is senior editor at award-winning platform Chai Khana (Tbilisi, Georgia). A former staff journalist for ABC News and Bloomberg News in London, she has reported from the Balkans, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union for both leading and specialised publications like the Financial Times and Eurasianet. She has extensive experience on refugee issues and forced displacement in UN-led missions from Kosovo to Afghanistan and regularly conducts training for journalists on journalism ethics and gender and conflict-sensitive reporting.