Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Polgreen is an opinion columnist at The New York Times who writes about foreign affairs, politics, and culture. She spent a decade as a correspondent for The New York Times in Africa and Asia, winning Polk and Livingston Awards for her coverage of ethnic cleansing in Darfur and resource conflicts in West Africa. She also previously served as editor in chief of HuffPost and managing director of Gimlet, a podcast company at Spotify.