| Kira Kay
Affiliation during program: Freelance
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Country Focus: Solomon Islands
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Spring 2004
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Kira Kay is a television news journalist based in New York whose international work has been seen on PBS, ABC, CBS and CNN. Her most recent assignment was as reporter and producer for a Newshour story on the start of the Cambodian war crimes tribunals, 30 years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. In 2004 she covered the Darfur crisis for 60 Minutes, and in 2002 was one of only a handful of American journalists allowed access to the war-torn province of Aceh, Indonesia.
As an IRP Fellow in early 2004, she spent six weeks in the Solomon Islands, filming the Australian-led intervention in this tiny island nation -- part of the larger global war on terror. In 2003 she completed her master’s degree in foreign policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. As part of a consultancy team sponsored by the United Nations, she traveled to Sierra Leone to research security threats and post-conflict reconstruction. As a Fulbright scholar in Southeast Asia from 2001-2002, Kay covered the region for various American news outlets, including the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several stories on regional terrorism. From 1992 to 2001 Kay worked for ABC News, producing for the magazine shows Primetime Live and 20/20. Assignments included an hour-long documentary on death row in Angola, Louisiana; a personal history of a small Ukrainian village and its residents during the holocaust; an investigation into the early release policy of the Los Angeles jails system; and the story of an Amish community changed by the arrival of its first black resident. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a fellow of the US-Japan Foundation Leadership Program.
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