For more than 20 years, she has written about culture and international travel. From 2000 until 2014, she was based in Berlin, Germany, allowing her easy access around the Continent, Russia and the Mideast. She has visited 46 countries and reported from more than a dozen for The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. She is a fellow at , and, with the Center’s support, is . Her Fellowship project will explore the effects of hospital closures on several rural California communities, as well as the growing use of telemedicine.