Marie Doezema has worked over the past ten years as a writer, editor, radio and television producer in the US, France, Japan and Qatar. She spent four years as a staff writer at The Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune in Tokyo before moving to Qatar to work as an editor and correspondent in Doha. She has also worked in San Francisco with independent radio producers The Kitchen Sisters on developing two new series for National Public Radio, The Hidden World of Girls and Hidden Kitchens World. Marie has a master’s degree in science and health writing from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and most recently has been working as a Paris correspondent for various international publications and as a producer for an African news agency that broadcasts in French, English and Arabic.