Fellows & Editors
Kimberly Burge
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2012
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- South Africa
- Year:
- 2012
Kimberly Burge is a Washington DC-based freelance journalist. A contributing writer for Sojourners magazine, she has published feature stories, editorials and reviews on issues of culture, politics, global poverty and development, faith and public policy. Previously, she worked for 12 years as senior writer and editor for Bread for the World, a Washington-based advocacy organization that works on hunger and poverty issues in the United States and worldwide. She was a 2010 Fulbright Scholar to South Africa. Kimberly earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from George Mason University and has received awards for her writing from the Religion Communicators Council, Associated Church Press Awards for Religious Journalism, and Evangelical Press Association. She is presently at work on a book of narrative nonfiction, “The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu” (forthcoming from W.W. Norton, 2014). It tells the story of a generation of young South African women coming of age after apartheid, told through the lens of a creative writing club.
Stories
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Battling Gender Violence and HIV in South Africa
With the largest number of people living with HIV in the world, South Africa remains at the forefront of the battle against AIDS. But some South Africans are now taking innovative&mdash...;
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How Men in South Africa Are Trying to Stop Violence Against Women
A dozen teen-aged boys sit in plastic chairs alongside opposite walls of the converted mobile trailer, forming not so much a discussion circle as parallel lines of slumped shoulders and restless twitchy...
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