Rukmini Callimachi is an award-winning journalist and works as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.

Callimachi began her reporting career in India, working as a freelancer for Time. She joined the Associated Press in 2003, relocating to the United States, and covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. While with the A.P., she spent eight years in Senegal as a foreign correspondent for twenty countries, and later as West Africa bureau chief. She joined The New York Times in 2014 and investigates Islamic extremism.

She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2014 for her series of stories based on a cache of internal Qaeda documents she discovered in Mali. She also won the George Polk Award in International Reporting, multiple Overseas Press Club Awards, and the Michael Kelly prize.In 2016, she won the Aurora Prize for Integrity in Journalism.

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