Jen Kirby is an award-winning freelance journalist, writer, and editor. Her work has been published in Vanity Fair, Foreign Policy, New Lines Magazine, The Guardian, and The Big Think, among others. She previously worked as a senior foreign and national security reporter at Vox and as an assistant editor at New York Magazine. She has worked on editorial and book projects across a range of subjects, including art, economics, geopolitics, history, memoir, pop culture, religion, and science. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.