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Jenny Nordberg, Sweden and the United States, is an investigative reporter and author.

A profiled foreign policy analyst and correspondent, her long-form investigations have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian. Her topics range from U.S. politics and policy, international human rights to finance, tech, corruption and conflict.

As a Bellingcat-trained visual investigations reporter, she has led many large-scale investigations in the field, most recently into the formerly occupied territories of Ukraine.

During her time as a correspondent in Afghanistan and Iran, she broke the story of “bacha posh” — on how girls live disguised as boys under gender apartheid.

The cross-border investigation was pu Jenny Nordberg, Sweden and the United States, is an investigative reporter and author.

A profiled foreign policy analyst and correspondent, her long-form investigations have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian. Her topics range from U.S. politics and policy, international human rights to finance, tech, corruption and conflict.

As a Bellingcat-trained visual investigations reporter, she has led many large-scale investigations in the field, most recently into the formerly occupied territories of Ukraine.

During her time as a correspondent in Afghanistan and Iran, she broke the story of “bacha posh” — on how girls live disguised as boys under gender apartheid.

The cross-border investigation was published in The New York Times and expanded into the nonfiction book The Underground Girls of Kabul: In search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan, published in 2015 and translated into eighteen languages.

At the New York Times’ investigations unit, Nordberg worked on projects such as examining cover-ups of fatal accidents freight railroad system — a series that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting — and U.S. State Department collusion with rebels in Haiti. She has produced and written several television documentaries, on the U.S. Army’s intelligence collaborators in Iraq, Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation and financial crime in Eastern Europe.

In Sweden, Nordberg founded the first investigative team at the national broadcasting’s radio division, where she supervised projects on terrorism and government corruption.

A frequent lecturer at U.S. universities, she has also appeared on NPR, WNYC, MSNBC and The Jon Stewart Show, and is a regular contributor of foreign policy commentary to Swedish radio and television. As an adjunct professor at New York University, she created and taught a class on cross-border investigations at the international journalism program.

She has won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors; IRE, The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia and The Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and Sweden’s premier investigative journalism award Guldspaden, and been awarded an Arabic fellowship to the American University of Beirut. She is an elected member of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Jenny Nordberg holds a B.A. in law and journalism from Stockholm University and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has written two novels and she is an artist. ...more

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“When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and the mind of a growing human can be expected to revolt against becoming a woman. And thus, perhaps, alter someone for good.”
― Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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“No group can be truly suppressed until its members are trained and convinced to suppress one another.”
― Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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“When I asked Afghans to describe to me the difference between men and women, over the years interesting responses came back. While Afghan men often begin to describe women as more sensitive, caring, and less physically capable than men, Afghan women tend to offer up only one difference, which had never entered my mind before.
Want to take a second and guess what that one difference may be?
Here is the answer: Regardless of who they are, whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Afghan women often describe the difference between men and women in just one word: freedom.
As in: Men have it, women do not.”
― Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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