Claudia is a freelance journalist who writes for a wide variety of publications including the Guardian.
Click here to listen to listen to an audioboo interview recorded at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre.
She is from Cwmbran and went to Fairwater comprehensive school before heading to Pontypool College and Cardiff University.
Her first byline was a Pet Shop Boys album review in the Pontypool Free Press. Her experience includes some articles for Scarlet magzine (now closed). Claudia was the editor of the Girl Guides website and wrote for a national trade magazine about the environment before leaving to freelance.
Here is a link to a Guardian article she wrote about community clear ups following the riots in August.
You can follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ethicaljourno
Here is the link to her Linkedin profile page http://www.linkedin.com/pub/claudia-cahalane/20/843/904?_mSplash=1
We got carried away with chatting and just went over the 5 minute Audiboo limit so sorry for the sharp cut off at the end.