She grew up in Rahova neighborhood of Bucharest, in a racially diverse environment that would later shape her writing with the Roma community.

She has worked as a reporter for Digi24, Libertatea, and Scena9, and has contributed to DER SPIEGEL, The New York Times, VICE, and Al Jazeera Balkans, among others.

Her reporting spans a wide range of social issues, including social inequality, sexual abuse, human trafficking, and cults. She has reported from Romania, Brazil, the US, South Korea, Jordan, and Pakistan, and writes in Romanian, English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Delia’s investigative work has had both national and international impact: her reporting led to the arrest of the leader of the Children of the Sun cult in Transylvania, and contributed to the withdrawal of Ulrich Seidl’s film Sparta from the Toronto International Film Festival.

She has received three Superscrieri Awards, Romania’s leading journalism prize, in the Report and Portrait categories (2017, 2021, 2022). Her story about an unhoused Romanian man killed by two teenagers in Sweden was part of the 2019 theatre production Frontal, directed by Gianina Cărbunariu.

Delia holds a BA in Journalism and an MA in European Governance from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and received scholarships from universities in Spain, Kazakhstan and Brazil.

In 2020–2021, she was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship. During this time, she studied leadership, journalism, and the history of race in America at Arizona State University, and contributed writing to Slate magazine and the New America think tank.

She is currently based in Bucharest, where she is developing two works in progress: a memoir she is co-editing and a feature documentary she is co-directing.

She works as Communications Manager at DiFine PR, overseeing communications for partners in the tech, media, education, and automotive sectors.

Delia is passionate about the Portuguese language and Brazil, where she lived for two years around the 2014 Football World Cup.

*The photos in the gallery are taken by photographer Eli Driu.