Justin Heifetz is an independent journalist based in France with over a decade of experience in writing.

His work can be found in VICE.com, CNN.com, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Condé Nast’s them., Roads and Kingdoms, The Diplomat, The Outline, La Croix, South China Morning Post and elsewhere.

Based out of the country’s second city Marseille, Justin reports and writes feature-length pieces on French society.

Before relocating to France in 2021, Justin worked as a journalist across Asia. He reported on Manila’s elderly drag performers living in transient shelters, social and workplace discrimination against North Korean defectors in Seoul and the threat of sexual violence facing Kolkata’s transgender community. In Hong Kong, Justin’s coverage helped reveal government-funded conversion therapy programs, teens risking dangerous abortions at illegal clinics, police officers assaulting and incriminating sex workers and the rampant abuse of live-in maids. His investigative writing chronicled how domestic workers from the Philippines become entrapped abroad and why Hong Kong is running out of space for waste, affordable housing and its own dead.

He also worked for nearly two years in France’s public service, connecting at-risk youth in Marseille with jobs, training programs and funding opportunities.

Justin speaks fluent French.