Karen Fragala Smith

Karen Fragala Smith was the Associate Editor in the Foreign Department of Newsweek, where she has worked for over a decade, interviewing notable figures including Benazir Bhutto, Madeleine Albright, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel.

Smith is currently working on her first nonfiction book, “Welcome to Your World: A Friendly Guide to Global Affairs” to be published in late 2009. Smith has lectured at Tsinghua University in Beijing China on The History and Meaning of Hip-Hop Music, The Roots and Rites of the American Dream and The Significance of the Chinese Olympics.

Smith holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Follow Smith on Twitter @worldnewswoman.