About Mélissa Godin

Mélissa is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of the forthcoming book Take the Waters (2027). Her work has appeared in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Vogue, among others.

Mélissa’s stories explore how social, political, and ecological upheavals shape the most intimate aspects of people’s lives, from the food they eat to the people they choose to love. Her reporting has been recognised by the Columbia Journalism Review, the United Nations Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Society of Environmental Journalists, One World Media, and others. Her documentaries, broadcast by Al Jazeera, Channel News Asia, and WaterBear, have been official selections and have won awards at the Toronto International Women Film Festival, the Monte-Carlo Television Festival and the DIG International Festival for Investigative Journalism. In 2018, she was named a National Geographic Storytelling Explorer.

Alongside journalism, Mélissa is a lecturer at Sciences Po. She studied politics, human rights, and philosophy at NYU, Sciences Po, and the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is represented by Elias Altman from the Massie, McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agency.

Born and raised in Canada, Mélissa now lives in Paris.