Viviana Viri is an independent journalist who collaborates with various national and international media. Her human rights expertise extends to the fields of migration, asylum, and minority rights. She has reported in Lebanon, Siberia, Ukraine, and Ethiopia. She has lived for several years in Canada, where she worked for Amnesty International and picked up photography and documentary-making. She also writes on films, literature, and photography. She is a long-standing collaborator of the Human Rights Foundation as well as of various film festivals, including the Lugano Human Rights Film Festival.

Born in 1983, Viviana Viri graduated in journalism before professionally specialising in migrations at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM) at the University of Neuchatel and the American University of Beirut. After living for several years in Canada, she now lives in Lugano.

Languages: Italian, French, English, German; basic knowledge of Arabic.