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- Selected articles for Lithuanian and international media are posted in this portfolio<\/a>; new updates on my journalistic activities are posted here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- On this website, you can also find my visual arts portfolio<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Key information about my research activities is on this page<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Policy research highlights are listed here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
My preferred social network is LinkedIn. You can find me here<\/a>. Second-best is Mastodon \u2014 find me at @daivarep@dju.social. I keep\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and Facebook <\/a>accounts, but don\u2019t post as enthusiastically.<\/p>\n
Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n
The first occupation I ever tried out was that of a graphic novelist – before it was cool. Before I learned to write, I used to draw illustrated stories with all the letters I knew at the time, in speech bubbles. Whenever anybody showed enough interest, I would narrate the story. Growing up, I wanted to be a forester, a translator, a physicist and an heir to a famous TV host, who would sit with a cup of tea and explain the world every week.<\/p>\n
My teenage dream was to learn Japanese<\/strong> and live in Japan. With some determination, I reached out to the only Japanese teacher at the time and he was kind to allow me to join his class. Already a student, I was selected to represent Lithuania in one of two European youth groups invited to a Study Tour for European Youth in Japan. In spring 2009 I received another opportunity, this time as a visiting research fellow at the University of Tokyo. The experience resulted in two academic publications and a series of articles for the newspaper I was working for at the time. Soon after I got a scholarship to spend an academic year in Tel Aviv<\/em>, Israel, where I was a research student at Tel Aviv University and volunteered for the African Refugee Development Center. I learned Hebrew quickly and later used the experience for very interesting tour guiding gigs with Travel Planet.<\/p>\n
As an 18-year-old, I gave in to social pressure not to choose journalism<\/strong> as my major, but less than two years later I got a dream job at a local newspaper, Atgimimas<\/em>. The newspaper didn\u2019t survive the economic crisis, but since then I have been published in The Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico<\/em> and elsewhere. After several years of writing features, editing, and podcasting, I am now mostly an investigative journalist, with an aim to transition into data journalism full-time.<\/p>\n
In search for a good place to live and start an international career, I planted myself in Luxembourg (as a translation<\/strong> and communication trainee at the European Parliament, DG Translation) and Malta (first as a migration and hate speech researcher at an NGO, then as a freelance researcher and writer). My multiple careers and personal interests allowed me to visit 40 countries<\/a> on four continents (including all EU countries) and learn to communicate in six foreign languages. I continue searching for opportunities to be able to spend most of my time working in my areas of interest. I have translated a number of non-fiction books from English to Lithuanian.<\/p>\n
Finally, briefly in 2008, and then more earnestly in 2013 I resumed drawing and painting<\/strong> studies, a passion that I dropped at the age of 11. I have a certificate from Accademia Italiana in Florence. In 2017 I also started taking creative writing classes, and in 2020-2021 I studied creative non-fiction writing at the University of Cambridge. My goal is to start publishing non-fiction books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to my personal website, which contains my blog and portfolios from different activities: journalism, translation, research, and creative arts. Selected articles for Lithuanian and international media are posted in ; new updates on my journalistic activities are posted here. On this website, you can also find my visual arts portfolio. Key information about my research activities is on . … <\/p>\n
- On this website, you can also find my visual arts portfolio<\/a>.<\/li>\n