Alva French is a Brooklyn-based journalist and filmmaker. She currently works as a freelance Video Journalist at The Wall Street Journal and as a Contributing Bilingual News Analyst at NewsGuard Technologies, Inc.
Born in Paris, Alva is a dual national of France and the US. She is a career changer with several years experience in the arts, digital media marketing and communications in New York, and Paris.
She holds an undergraduate degree from New York University and earned an MA in International Multimedia Reporting from the City University of New York, Graduate School of Journalism.
Alva’s journalism work has appeared on WSJ.com, NBC News, including Meet the Press, The New York Daily News, WNYC.org, HuffPost, The Associated Press, BuzzFeed News, and Reuters TV.
Updated April 2019