Background
She left Romania during the communist regime with her mother and grandmother, for Switzerland and then the United States, where she attended The Thacher School in Ojai, California.
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Rukmini Maria Callimachi
Edit ProfileEducation
She graduated from Dartmouth College, and from Exeter College, Oxford, with a masters in linguistics.
Career
In 2000, she co-led the Royal Geographical Society"s expedition to Tibet. She began as a freelancer in New Delhi, India including for Time magazine. She joined the Associated Press in Portland, Oregon, in 2003.
She spent a year in New Orleans documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
She began reporting out of Dakar, Senegal, as a West African correspondent for The Associated Press in late 2006. In 2014, she was hired by Her reporting focuses on Islamic extremism.
Her poetry has been published in The American Scholar, Oxford, and Black Warrior Review.
Achievements
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2011 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award from Ball State University for her article, "Haiti-Hotel Montana". 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist "for her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa" 2014 Michael Kelly Award and finalist in 2009 and 2012 2007 Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, “Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath,” The Associated Press 2004 John M. Templeton Religion Story of the Year award, The Daily Herald (Illinois), "Passage from India" 1998 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry.
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United States
Awards
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George Polk Award 2011 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award from Ball State University for her article, "Haiti-Hotel Montana". 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist "for her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa" 2014 Michael Kelly Award and finalist in 2009 and 2012 2007 Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, “Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath,” The Associated Press 2004 John M. Templeton Religion Story of the Year award, The Daily Herald (Ill), "Passage from India" 1998 Keats-Shelley Prize for PoetryGeorge Polk Award 2011 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award from Ball State University for her article, "Haiti-Hotel Montana". 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist "for her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa" 2014 Michael Kelly Award and finalist in 2009 and 2012 2007 Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, “Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath,” The Associated Press 2004 John M. Templeton Religion Story of the Year award, The Daily Herald (Ill), "Passage from India" 1998 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry