In this episode writer Lucia Osborne-Crowley talks to TLC’s Aki Schilz about how truth and power are two sides of the same coin, being one of only four court reporters admitted into the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the redemptive power of reading, and writing as an act of resistance and reparation – for others, and for the self.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s career in journalism started in 2014 at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. She has since worked as a staff reporter for Women’s Agenda, and the Wall Street Journal, and as a court reporter covering the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. As a freelance writer and reporter she’s worked for outlets including ABC News, the Huffington Post, GQ Australia, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and most recently The Nerve. Her incredible reporting is supplemented by her knowledge in the area of law: she spent four years working in the class actions department at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and has also worked as a research assistant to the Dean of the UNSW Law School and to an Arbitration Judge in London and Vienna. Lucia’s legal research work has focused on constitutional law, international law and human rights. She is the author of three critically acclaimed books: The Lasting Harm, a forensic testimony from the explosive trial of Ghislaine Maxwell published by 4th Estate, and two books on trauma and survival for the Indigo Press: I Choose Elena and My Body Keeps Your Secrets.