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KELLY MCEVERS is a correspondent for NPR’s National Desk. She has served extensively as an NPR correspondent in the Middle East and East Asia reporting major events and groundbreaking news. In addition to NPR, her radio work has appeared on PRI/Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life, NPR’s Hearing Voices and On the Media, American Public Media’s Weekend America, and the CBC. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books Online, The Washington Monthly, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a founder of Six Billion, an online magazine that was a regular feature at Harvard University’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. McEvers served as a fellow with the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies and has been a professor of journalism at universities in the U.S. and abroad.