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Solène Guarinos

🎥 Storyteller. Curious mind. Global lens.

🌍 From France to the U.S. to Qatar, I’ve followed stories across borders—producing digital videos, explainers, and social-first content designed to inform, engage, and (hopefully) make people stop scrolling.

🎙️ MAs in journalism, history, and research (turns out I couldn’t pick just one). I care about turning complex topics into accessible stories—with empathy, clarity, and strong visuals.

🛠️ Fluent in French and English, and always picking up new languages along the way. Adobe-native. Endless curious, always looking for the next story.

📎 Curious about the full story? Take a look at my CV here

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One minute reel: Digital Producer — The Stream, UpFront & Explainers

One-minute reel showcasing my work across The Stream, UpFront, and On-Camera Explainers. For each video, I carefully selected soundbites (SOTs), relevant B-roll footage, and background music to craft a compelling narrative. I formatted and optimized videos for different digital platforms, adjusting aspect ratios and length to meet platform-specific requirements. I wrote engaging captions and copy text aligned with the editorial tone, and incorporated branding elements such as logos and motion graphics. Collaborating closely with producers and editorial teams, I ensured messaging consistency and quality. Additionally, I managed upload and publishing schedules to meet deadlines and monitored video analytics.
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Production TV show: Ukraine’s Artists: Protest & Resilience

On The Stream, we look at how Ukrainians harness art as a powerful tool of protest and resistance during wartime.For more than three years, the war in Ukraine has devastated civilian lives and put the nation’s cultural heritage at risk. Yet, amid the conflict, artists, musicians, and creatives continue to produce powerful work. But what challenges have they faced? And how has the war shaped their art?

On The Stream, we look at how Ukrainians harness art as a powerful tool of protest and resista...
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A school cop was accused of sexual misconduct with kids. He kept his job for years.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The teen was nervous to hear the results of the investigation. Weeks had passed since the 15-year-old reported that a school resource officer sexually assaulted her. In his office. In the middle of the school day. Now a captain from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department had set up a meeting with the 10th-grader and her therapist to tell them what was going to be done about it.Two of his colleagues had reported that they saw Bradley, alone with a female student, late at night...
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The Smithsonian's 'bone doctor' scavenged thousands of body parts

Hrdlicka (hurd-lich-kuh) was one of the world's leading anthropologists, and he ran the Smithsonian'€™s division of physical anthropology for about 40 years. He amassed an enormous collection of body parts and used his research in Alaska to propagate the theory that the first people to populate North America crossed a land bridge at the Bering Strait. For years he dominated the still hotly contested debate over when these people first traversed the Pacific.

He considered people who were not W
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'Brain desirable,' Part 1

Documents collected by Ales Hrdlicka, an anthropologist who collected tens of thousands of human remains for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, are photographed at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Silver Hill, Md. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

The brain of a Sami woman who died at a Seattle sanitarium in 1933. The cerebellum of an indigenous Filipino who died at the 1904 World’s Fair. These are just two of the brains collected, seemingly without consent, by the
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Revealing the Smithsonian’s ‘racial brain collection’

Most of the brains were removed upon death from Black and Indigenous people and other people of color. They are part of a collection of at least 30,700 human bones and other body parts still held by the Natural History Museum, the most-visited museum within the Smithsonian. The collection, one of the largest in the world, includes mummies, skulls, teeth and other body parts, representing an unknown number of people.

The remains are the unreconciled legacy of a grisly practice in which bodies an
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Coached until she collapsed, an aspiring bodybuilder is now on life support

Drug orders were sometimes allegedly handled with the help of his girlfriend, Hannah Mehregan, and labeled as essential oils or vitamins to evade customs, according to several former clients and messages documenting the transactions. “Please make sure you order all non natural supplements from Hannah before this Sunday to last you until your show, as we won’t be able to ship anything until I’m back! Make sure you don’t run out of anything, ost, tamoxifen, clen, etc!” Ayotte posted on “Team Atlas
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One person rushed to hospital after car crash in Brightwood Park

The car smashed into a concrete barrier in an alley off Kennedy Street near Illinois Avenue, NW.

The lights and sirens of police officers were loud in the Brightwood Park neighborhood of D.C. around 5:30 pm tonight as a person crashed his car into a concrete barrier that was blocking a narrow alley.

“Somebody has been transported to hospital,” confirmed an MPD officer who was on the site of the accident in Northwest, D.C. However, the officer declined to give more information

On Twitter, @ala
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Bodybuilders dying as coaches and judges encourage extreme measures

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Alena Kosinova was hunched over a fan waiting for her spray tan to dry when she realized she couldn’t move. It was hours before the 2021 Europa Pro contest and the Czech bodybuilder was cramping again — just like she had at a contest in Portugal weeks earlier.

Kosinova was known by friends and competitors for embracing the extremes of bodybuilding — the training, the dieting, the drugs. But on that ste
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Columbia Heights struggles to find its Christmas spirit

Despite D.C. Holidays Lights, Columbia Heights is taking time to turn on its Christmas lights, much to the despair of businesses.

Christmas is less than a month away, but Columbia Heights is only shyly decorating the neighborhood.

Despite events organized by District Bridges, a nongovernmental organization, local businesses regret that the neighborhood doesn’t have as much light as it has had in the past. However, these business owners hope to bring the Christmas spirit back to Columbia Height
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Once again, D.C. Councilmembers try to expand voting rights for green card holders

Next Election Day might see a huge change for D.C. residents, as council members try to give permanent residents the right to vote in local elections.

The midterm elections are barely over and already the council is debating legislation on who is eligible to vote in upcoming local elections. This could have a great impact D.C. residents.

The new bill would give the right to vote in local elections to lawful permanent residents, also called green card holders, who live in D.C. Last year, the hi
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Pending bill to let noncitizens vote in D.C. elections debated

Columbia Heights voters are divided over a bill that now sits on Mayor Bowser’s desk.

Voters at the Columbia Heights Educational Campus were divided this morning over a pending bill that would give the right to vote in local elections to noncitizens living in D.C.

The new bill made its way to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office this Friday after the D.C. Council approved it on Oct. 18. Bowser has until Nov. 21 to act on the measure.

If the major signs it, the bill then goes to Congress for review.
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Tracking which 2020 election deniers are winning, losing in the midterms

More than 170 election deniers on the ballot for the U.S. House, Senate and key statewide offices have been projected to win their elections. The majority of Republican nominees on the ballot on Nov. 8 — 291 in all — had denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election, according to a Washington Post analysis.

More than 100 so far were projected to lose, and these denier candidates fared especially poorly in the most competitive races. Less than 10 races remained uncalled as v
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Ward 1 high schools hope for a change with a new education grant

A wind of change is blowing over high schools in Ward 1, as Cardozo Education Campus won a grant two weeks ago to redesign its curriculum for the next school year. The other high school in Ward 1, Columbia Heights Educational Center, will have to wait.

High schools in Ward 1 plan to change their curricula thanks to the XQ grant, which would impact the education of hundreds of students, and maybe more in the coming years.

The XQ Association encourages public high schools to rethink and redesign
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The unseen toll of nonfatal police shootings

The way Kenneth Gilbert Jr. and his father tell the story, it had been a busy morning running errands in east Atlanta when their pickup was suddenly cut off by a dark truck and forced onto the curb.

Once Gilbert Sr. got back on the road, he said, the truck swerved back into their lane. Gilbert Sr. said he hit the gas and sped around it, making a sweeping motion with his hand as he shouted at the driver to “move over.”

Gilbert Sr. said that as he slowed for the next stoplight, he saw the truck
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D.C. Council considering bills to decriminalize street vending, set up zone in Columbia Heights

The D.C. Council will consider bills to decriminalize unlicensed street vendors and create a vending zone in Columbia Heights. The measures have been introduced by Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau.

Members of the D.C. Council next month are scheduled to consider bills to decriminalize street vendors who operate without a license and to create a street vending zone in Columbia Heights.

Vendors welcome the bills, introduced by Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, but say they hope the effort
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Where Republican election deniers are on the ballot near you

A previous version of this piece provided an incorrect count of the number of Republican nominees who have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election. The correct number is 291, not 299. The error was caused by an incorrect application of the criteria The Post is using to identify election deniers. As a result, the following names have been removed from this list: U.S. House candidates Scott Baugh of California, George Logan of Connecticut, Amanda Adkins of Kansas, John J
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Columbia Heights Latino restaurants struggle to benefit from Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic restaurants in Columbia Heights are still reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and owners are hoping to capitalize on Hispanic Heritage Month as one way to attract customers.

These owners know that one themed month is not enough to compensate for the losses caused by COVID-19. But, the month is just one of many ways they hope to bring in new business.

Hispanic Heritage Month started on Sept. 15 and will last until Oct. 15. This is a month to celebrate and recognize Hispan
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How the NFL blocks Black coaches

But that glimmer of progress was a mirage. In the 33 years since Shell’s hiring, just 24 other head coaches have been Black .

A brief uptick of Black coaching hires in the mid-2000s provided hope that racial equity was within reach.

He is one of 191 people who have been head coaches in the three-plus decades since.

In 1989, the Los Angeles Raiders hired Art Shell, who became the first Black head coach in the modern history of the National Football League.

Despite the league’s end-zone pledge