Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni is an American author, journalist, and war correspondent currently serving as the Executive Director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes documentation organization. She is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a recipient of the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Over a 35-year career, di Giovanni has covered major conflicts including the Siege of Sarajevo, Rwandan genocide, Kosovo War, conflicts in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq War, Somalia, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Ukraine and the Syrian civil war. She is a "human rights reporter" with a focus on war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious Courage Award from the International Women's Media Foundation for her lifetime body of work. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the Blake-Dodd Prize for her lifetime body of work in non-fiction. Provided by Wikipedia