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Kierran Petersen

Kierran Petersen is the former social media journalist at PRI's The World.

Kierran Petersen is the former social media journalist at PRI's The World. In 2015, she graduated from The George Washington University with a degree in Journalism & Mass Communication.Before making her way to Boston, she worked in Washington DC as a freelance writer and producer for BBC Washington. She has also spent time on the other side of the phone, during a stint at The Department of Health and Human Services working in the public affairs department. However, the best decision she says she has ever made was to live in Kigali, Rwanda for four months researching the role of filmmaking in the country's post-genocide restoration.When she's not feverishly checking Twitter or fishing for likes on Facebook, she's probably playing soccer, listening to a podcast — or both.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R), opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron (L) and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg take part in the second of Britain's leadership election debates in Bristol, southwest England, on April 22, 2010.

There’s a simple reason why it took so long for televised debates to become part of British politics

Global Politics

And it has nothing to do with how sassy the candidates are.

Prisca Korein, a 62-year-old traditional surgeon, holds razor blades before carrying out female genital mutilation on teenage girls from the Sebei tribe in Bukwa district, about 357 kms (214 miles) northeast of Kampala, December 15, 2008.

The movement that brought the UK’s female genital mutilation problem to light

Education
Members of the civil defense rescue children after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo.

Netflix now has some of the most dramatic footage you’ll see from inside Syria

Media
British writer Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), 11th December 1971.

Game: How many of these Roald Dahl words do you know?

Books
The World

The Ukrainian connection in DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels’ new music video

Music

One of London’s oldest gay bars is pouring its last pint

Food

The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London’s gay community since about the 1920s.The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London’s gay community since about the 1920s.

27 years later, prosecutors identify two new Lockerbie bombing suspects

Conflict

Two Libyans are suspected in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in which 270 people were killed.

The story behind the Rwandan refugee camp that inspired Kanye’s Yeezy Season 3

Conflict

Exploring a confusing connection between genocide and pop culture.

The 2016 World Press Photo winners — in pictures

Culture

The topics range from the war in Syria to the illegal ivory trade in many parts of Africa.

At the RNC, "Girls just wanna have guns." At the DNC, "Girls just wanna have fundamental rights."

The unofficial merch at the conventions told a really different story than the speeches did

Election 2016

“Life’s a bitch. Don’t vote for one” is *probably* not a slogan approved by the Trump campaign.