Joanna Whitehead is a Travel Editor at DIVA Magazine/Freelance Reporter at The Independent & The i. 

She is a freelance journalist and editor with a focus on LGBTQ+ lives, travel, feminism, culture and the criminal justice system. With over six years of editing and production experience, she is adept at writing compelling copy to tight deadlines, managing staff and volunteers, social media, subbing and digital picture editing.

In addition to news writing, she has also turned her hand to comment, features, interviews and reviews. Earlier in her career, she worked in the criminal justice system and charity sector with victims of sexual and violent crime and have specialist skills, knowledge and experience in this sector.