Kate Webb is a Canadian journalist currently living in Kent, U.K. Earlier this year she was selected for a 2009 International Reporting Fellowship from the Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). In May, she traveled throughout mainland Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands to report on the efforts of a Canadian NGO working to develop sustainable tourism.
Her four-part fellowship series was published in August in The Province, one of British Columbia's largest daily newspapers. She worked the previous two years there as a staff reporter, but left in May to travel and pursue freelance writing.
Kate's work has been published in Canwest newspapers across the country, and Black Press newspapers throughout British Columbia. She has worked as a reporter for The Abbotsford News, The Mission City Record, and The Lookout newspaper, serving Canada's West Coast Navy. From 2005-2006 she was news editor of The Martlet, the University of Victoria's student newspaper. Her stories have also appeared in Up! Magazine and Friday! Magazine.
She holds a high standing Bachelors Degree in political science from the University of British Columbia and pursued a minor in journalism for two years at the University of Victoria. Courses that changed her life include: philisophies of feminism, the environment, science and religion; environmental politics and policy; politics of human rights; public opinion and elections; quantitative methods in political science research; and astronomy.