Garda was also a senior presenter[6] and producer for AJ+, Al Jazeera Media Network's all digital video news channel based in San Francisco.

[citation needed] Garda joined Al Jazeera English in 2006 initially as a sports presenter, but was moved to news during the piloting phase.

He reported from the US, Sudan, Turkey, Egypt, Namibia, Bahrain, Lesotho, India, South Africa and the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

On 16 April 2015 it was announced that Garda would host a show on Al Jazeera America called Third Rail, an hour-long, guest-driven debate program focused on under-reported stories and hot-button topics.

"[23] In April 2016 Garda and his colleague Jerome Evans were given rare access to make a documentary in North Korea during the Pyongyang Marathon.

[25] In their documentary The Invisible Empire: the KKK and Hate in America,[26] Garda and Evans got up close with the Ku Klux Klan in a show that highlighted the resurgence of white supremacism in the United States.

"[32] Reviewer Eric Garland called it, "[A] breathtakingly strong debut novel about the self-discovery and strained relationships of human beings in an era that defies understanding.