Farah Stockman is an award-winning American

United States

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 journalist, currently employed by the Boston Globe.

Education

Stockman attended Harvard University

Harvard University

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, graduating in 1996.

In the summer of 1996 Stockman directed the Mission Hill Summer Program with Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association

Phillips Brooks House Association

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Kenyan 1997-2000

Following graduation Stockman served as a school teacher in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

 for two years. Stockman and other teachers set up the Jitegemee

Jitegemee

Jitegemee is a Kenyan NGO created for the purpose of aiding street children in Machakos, Kenya.- History/Foundation :Jitegemee was founded in 2003 by the work of Farah Stockman and Alex Mutiso, and has been supported since by grants and contributions. It is overseen by a U.S...

 non-governmental organization

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While living in Kenya Stockman began writing for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Voice of America

Voice of America

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and Reuters

Reuters

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During her time in Kenya Stockman covered the Rwandan genocide

Rwandan Genocide

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Attempts to interview Mubarik Shah Gillani

Stockman is reported to have been seeking to interview Mubarik Shah Gillani, an individual who was in hiding, who was also being sought by Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl

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, at the time of his death.
Mariane Pearl

Mariane Pearl

Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl is a French freelance journalist and a reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.-Life and career:Pearl was born in Clichy,...

, Daniel Pearl's wife, wrote that an article Stockman wrote, linking Gillani to Richard Reid

Richard Reid (shoe bomber)

Richard Colvin Reid , also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a self-admitted member of al-Qaeda who pled guilty in 2002 in U.S. federal court to eight criminal counts of terrorism stemming from his attempt to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight by detonating explosives hidden in his shoes...

, was the inspiration for her husband to seek the interview that lead to his capture and death.

Boston Globe

Upon her return to the United States Stockman started working for the Boston Globe.
Since 2004 Stockman has worked in the Globe's Washington bureau.

Awards

Stockman was a winner of an award from the J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund in the 1990s.
Stockman won her award for her work "with homeless children in Machakos, Kenya."
Stockman subsequently became one of the funds directors.

In 2009 Stockman won the William Brewster Styles award.
The award is one given by the Scripps Howard Foundation

Scripps Howard Foundation

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, and is accompanied by $10,000.
Stockman's award was for "for identifying U.S. corporations that were covertly using international relationships and offshore operations to avoid taxes, side-step U.S. laws and deny workers’ rights."