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Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in Nairobi and New York City. Formerly Cosmopolitan.com's senior political writer and a columnist for the Guardian, her work on law, politics, gender, global health and foreign affairs has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Al Jazeera America, Foreign Policy, Marie Claire, and others. A non-practicing attorney, she was also an editor at NYU Law's Journal of Law and Social Change, and a contributor to the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly. A winner of a 2015 Sigma Chi Delta Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a 2014 Newswoman's Club of New York Front Page Award, she was also a UN Foundation Fellow in Malawi in 2013 and Indonesia in 2015, and an International Reporting Project fellow in Brazil in 2014 and India in 2015. She is currently working on a book about women, politics and pleasure. Ms. Filipovic fits into post’s programming needs by providing practical advice and skills development to emerging women journalists. Her work has often centered on women’s rights, reproductive rights, sexual harassment and cyber bullying, themes which resonate with young Nepali women. She has also built a career balancing freelance and online work with stints in traditional media, a possible way forward for young women whose careers have stalled out in traditional media houses.