Maeva Bambuck has been teaching Video Fundamentals since 2024. She is currently a producer at CNN based in NYC.
She has won two Emmy awards and was nominated for several more for her reporting from Ukraine, Pakistan, Cuba and the Central African Republic among others. She won an Overseas Press Club awards for her reporting in Syria.
Prior to CNN, Bambuck was a Senior Editorial Producer at VICE News, and held various roles at the Associated Press (AP) including Planning Director, for Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to that, she spent six years as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Haiti.
During her time at the AP, she covered the Syrian civil war and the fight against the Islamic State extensively, traveling to Syria and Iraq on multiple occasion, and documenting the US-led air fight against Syrian and ISIS targets from aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt and Charles-de-Gaulle. She embedded with the foreign legions in Mali and Niger, covering the Barkhane operation aimed at interrupting jihadist financing route through the Sahara desert.
In Afghanistan, she embedded with Afghan forces in Tagab and Bamyian and with French forces in Kapisa and Surobi. She travelled extensively to remote parts of Badakhshan, Balkh provinces and to the border with Pakistan to report on maternal mortality and health education challenges, earning a UN press fellowship in Global Health in the process.
Bambuck has been covering Haiti since 2010. She was the first foreign reporter reporting from Saint-Marc, Haiti, before a cholera epidemic was confirmed. She subsequently covered presidential elections, the return of Baby Doc, the Petrocaribe crisis, the aftermath of the 2021 presidential assassination and the latest spiral into gang violence.
Between 2019 and 2023, Bambuck worked on the news show VICE News Tonight on HBO, and VICE on Showtime.
She is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communications.