Janine di Giovanni has investigated war crimes and genocides in conflict zones around the world. She is a contributing writer for Vanity Fair and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Granta, Foreign Affairs, and The National, the largest English-language newspaper in the Middle East. Her work has had a global impact, earning her the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award, two Amnesty International Prizes, the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her lifetime body of work, and the National Magazine Award for her reporting on sexual violence in Kosovo. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book about Christians in the Middle East. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and currently serves as Executive Director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes documentation initiative focused on Ukraine, Syria, Darfur, and Israel / Palestine. She is also a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where she teaches Human Rights, and has held fellowships at Yale Law School and Johns Hopkins University.