Jina Moore is the Global Women's Rights reporter for BuzzFeed News, based in Nairobi. Before joining BuzzFeed, she spent nearly a decade as an Africa correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Al Jazeera America, The Atlantic, Salon and others, and she was a senior nonfiction editor at Guernica Magazine. She's won many awards for her human rights reporting, which has taken her to nearly 25 countries.
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