Education:

BA, Brown University; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Professional experience includes:

Correspondent, CNN; Beijing Bureau Chief, U.S. News & World Report

Publications include:

Mother Jones, PixelPress, Huffington Post, Newsweek International, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, The Village Voice, The New York Times

Essays and photographs in:

Best African American Essays 2009; Inside the L.A. Riots: What Really Happened and Why It Will Happen Again; China: Fifty Years Inside The People's Republic; The Education of a Photographer

Awards and honors include:

Media Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Ford Foundation