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Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning freelance journalist and Emmy-nominated producer. From 2013 to 2023 she was based in Israel, where her dispatches were published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Time, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review and Politico Magazine, among other publications. Yardena has reported from Morocco, Nepal, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, and the United States. She previously worked at NBC News headquarters in New York, including stints at The Today Show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, earned an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and an RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. From 2021 to 2022 she was a Journalism Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Yardena is now living in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and two children, and writing her first book, under contract with Union Square & Co., a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble.