Nina Burleigh
Nina Burleigh is National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek Magazine. She is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books. Her last book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a widely praisedNew York Times bestseller. In the last several years, she has covered an array of subjects, from American politics to the Arab Spring. She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, New York and The New York Times. She has lectured around the U.S. and in Italy, France and Mexiso, and has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and numerous radio programs.
Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has traveled extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She covered the Clinton White House for Time and reported and wrote human interest stories at People Magazine from New York.
She is a an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has lectured around the United States, in Italy, and in Mexico. Her book, Mirage, published in 2008 by Harper Collins, was selected by The New York Times as an editors' choice and won the Society of Women Educators' Award in 2008.
Nina Burleigh is National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek Magazine. She is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books. Her last book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a widely praisedNew York Times bestseller. In the last several years, she has covered an array of subjects, from American politics to the Arab Spring. She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, New York and The New York Times. She has lectured around the U.S. and in Italy, France and Mexiso, and has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and numerous radio programs.
Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has traveled extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She covered the Clinton White House for Time and reported and wrote human interest stories at People Magazine from New York.
She is a an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has lectured around the United States, in Italy, and in Mexico. Her book, Mirage, published in 2008 by Harper Collins, was selected by The New York Times as an editors' choice and won the Society of Women Educators' Award in 2008.
Understanding the Middle East
Election 2016
As National Politics Correspondent for Newsweek, Burleigh has a front row seat on this pivotal upcoming election year. She has deep and long experience covering American politics in Washington, has traveled to every state in the continental U.S. with candidates over the years. She has covered Hillary Clinton off and on since 1990, and is now also covering Cruz, Rubio, Walker, Paul, Bush, Trump and the rest of the GOP field. Burleigh can tell audiences about her many adventures on...
Risk, Creativity and Women's Choices
As a mother, wife, globe-trotting journalist and best-selling author, Burleigh knows well the hurdles that all women everywhere face trying to juggle family and career. Her speech on risk, creativity and choices is an uplifting personal story and a road map that inspires other women to think about and strategize following their own hearts. The speech opens with the tale of her refugee grandmother, born in what is now Iraq, and who lost her parents and baby brother on a refugee trek fleeing...
Global adventures in true crime
Burleigh has investigated and solved crime stories in Jerusalem and Perugia, and those experiences are the bases of two of her critically acclaimed books: Unholy Business, and the New York Times best-seller, The Fatal Gift of Beauty. In this fun, engaging speech, Burleigh regales audiences with personal anecdotes from her years of work in Israel and Italy, and sketches of the sketchy characters encountered in the back alleys of Jerusalem, the Negev Desert, the shadowy lanes of...
The Politics of Climate Change
