Roberta Staley is an award-winning magazine writer and editor with extensive news gathering experience in the Third World as well as in Canada. She has covered the environment, cultural, crime, justice, microfinance and health, especially HIV-AIDS. Staley has penned features on voodoo possession in Haiti, beauty pageants in Colombia, Soweto’s still-raw anti-apartheid past and the resurgence of Maori self-determination in New Zealand.