Yael Even Or is a producer on America Abroad. Her reporting and commentary has appeared PRI’s “The World”, WNYC, The Jewish Daily Forward, Tablet Magazine, Okay Africa, and South African Daily Maverick among other publications.
Yael Even Or is a multimedia journalist and a producer on America Abroad. Her reporting and commentary has appeared PRI’s “The World”, WNYC, The Jewish Daily Forward, Tablet Magazine, Okay Africa, and South African Daily Maverick among other publications. She's originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, and has served as a political editor, 2012 US election correspondent, and news editor for Israel’s Walla News, one of the most popular websites in the country.
A woman recounts what it was like to discover she had been infected with Zika six weeks before she was due to give birth.
Raphael Nzirubusa remembers feeling torn about staying in the US or joining his family in Burundi while war escalated there in the early 1990s. A priest in the US warned against leaving and told Nzirubusa, "We’ll pray for you, but you’re going to have to stay."
Ahlam is a 28-year-old medical resident from Syria. She came to the US late last year to give birth to her daughter. Her family is pressing her to stay, but she left her husband behind in Syria. Now she has to decide whether to stay in safety or go back.