Leila Goldstein

Leila Goldstein is a journalist based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she is an associate editor for CamboJA News and a freelance reporter covering stories across Southeast Asia. 

Her reporting has been published by NPR, Marketplace, The World, Southeast Asia Globe, and Prachatai. She has covered the return of looted Cambodian relics, a historic environmental rights lawsuit in Thailand, and the trafficking of Indonesian citizens in the illegal organ trade.

Before relocating to Cambodia in 2023, Goldstein was a public radio reporter in the U.S. As a reporter at Ohio NPR member station WYSO, she reported and produced the award-winning podcast Trafficked, which investigated Ohio’s statewide human trafficking stings.

Goldstein received grant funding from the Earth Journalism Network in 2023 and 2024 to support her reporting projects. She is a former Shansi Fellow and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.