Livia Albeck-Ripka an Australian journalist and filmmaker. She is based in Los Angeles, where she writes for The New York Times. She directed and produced STILL STANDING, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
Her work has been featured on The Daily and The New York Times Presents, the Times’ documentary series.
In 2018, Livia was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship for her writing on mental health. She has also written for publications including The Atlantic, National Geographic, VICE Magazine, Quartz and The Outline.
In 2014, she was awarded a residency at FABRICA, a creative studio in northern Italy, where she worked on feature projects and wrote for COLORS Magazine. Previously, she was deputy editor of an independent Australian publication featuring longform interviews.
She has a master's degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. She also has a BA in Philosophy and Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.
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