Born and raised in Myanmar, Thin Lei Win is an award-winning multimedia journalist with two decades of experience reporting from many parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Thin established Myanmar Now, an award-winning bilingual news agency, on the eve of the historic 2015 elections and co-founded The Kite Tales, a unique storytelling project that chronicles the lives of ordinary people across Myanmar and that now supports the country’s struggling journalists. She is also Lead Reporter for the Food Systems Newsroom of Lighthouse Reports, a collaborative journalism outlet focusing on public interest investigations, and curates her own newsletter Thin Ink.