Patrick Hilsman is a New York-based reporter and researcher. Hilsman reported directly from Syria multiple times during the battle of Aleppo, he reported on medical shortages from Syria’s Northeast for WHYY in 2018 and was a researcher for the award-winning Al Jazeera documentary The Search for Assad’s Executioners. He has written for Alternet, The Intercept, VICE News, the Daily Beast, Quartz, Vocativ, the Believer and Mashable, and continues to research drone proliferation in the Syrian conflict.