The Underground Girls of Kabul

Speaker:

Jenny Nordberg

05 Feb 2015

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Jenny Nordberg is an investigative reporter and author of the book The Underground Girls of Kabul. She will discuss the practice of bacha posh - disguising young girls as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan - revealing new aspects of the practice and going deep into the resistance among Afghan women. Nordberg's front-page stories have been published in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and she is also developing bachaposh.com as an online resource for girls who have grown up as boys due to segregation. She is a New York-based foreign correspondent and a columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, and holds a B.A. in Law and Journalism from Stockholm University, and an M.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. World Affairs Series: Redefining Global Security.

Together with The Times' investigative unit, Nordberg previously worked on projects such as an examination of the American freight railroad system; a series that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and U.S. efforts at exporting democracy to Haiti. She has also produced and written several documentaries for American television, about Iraqi refugees, Pakistan's nuclear proliferation and the impact of the global financial crisis in Europe. In Sweden, Nordberg was a member of the first investigative team at Swedish Broadcasting's national radio division, where she supervised projects on terrorism and politics. Nordberg has won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors, The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and Föreningen Grävande Journalister.