Fellows & Editors
Irin Carmon
- Trip:
- Kenya 2012
- Affiliation:
- Salon.com
- Country:
- Kenya
- Year:
- 2012
- Find me on:
Irin Carmon is a New York-based staff writer at Salon.com, where she focuses on politics and culture, as well as a monthly columnist at Tablet, and also frequently contributes to other publications and to television programs. In 2011 she was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in media and featured in New York magazine as a face of young feminism. She received the November 2011 Sidney award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon.
Stories
-
Conservatives’ Other Kenyan Obsession
Stateside, the warm ties between U.S. evangelicals and conservative African clerics are visible only in glimpses: the footage of Sarah Palin’s Assembly of God church hosting a minister who...
-
Africa’s Abortion-Rights Breakthrough
We weren’t officially there to talk about abortion, but I asked the four Kenyan women in a Laikipia health clinic anyway. Did any of them have friends who had died...
-
Imprisoned for Giving Birth
Here is how Maimuna, 42, knows how many women and babies were detained with her in Pumwani hospital for being unable to pay for maternity care: “When we go to sleep, they...
-
“Barack Obama Wasn’t Born in Kenya”
These days, you need an appointment to see Obama’s Granny, and yesterday we had one. In Kogelo they call her Mama Sarah Obama, and the once-modest home of Barack...
-
Why Kenyan Women Fear Romney
As much as reproductive rights were catapulted into major campaign issues this cycle – in the Republican primaries and beyond – one political football has remained unaddressed. That would be the global...
-
Among the Flying Toilets: Asking Awkward Questions in Nairobi’s Massive Slum
Hello, nice to meet you. Would you have married your husband if you’d known he had HIV? Why did you change your mind about that abortion you wanted? How do...
Your donation helps continue the IRP's work to inform the public about international issues.
Make A Gift