Brief biography:
Tara McKelvey writes about China and Beijing’s policies for Radio Free Asia. Previously, she worked as a White House correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation, traveling on Air Force One with Obama, Trump, and Biden. She is also a contributor to the New York Times Book Review and was a Ferris fellow at Princeton. Her writing about the CIA has received a Guggenheim, and she’s the recipient of a Shorenstein fellowship at Harvard. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis described her book, Monstering (Basic Books), about the torture of prisoners during the Iraq war, as “a powerful account of the most shameful behavior by an American government in recent memory.”
Tara recieved an A.B. in Government from Georgetown.
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