Janine di Giovanni is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished foreign correspondents of her generation. She is the Executive Director and CEO of The Reckoning Project, a transnational war crimes documentation initiative she co-founded in 2022. The project trains and supports local investigators in Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, and Darfur to collect legally admissible testimony and evidence of atrocity crimes, and builds legal cases in court, working with international justice mechanisms. 

A Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, she was previously a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for Human Rights and a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos Agora Institute. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Blake-Dodd Prize for Nonfiction. 

Over three decades, di Giovanni has reported from nearly every major conflict of our time—Sarajevo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, South Sudan, Yemen, and Ukraine—publishing with The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and The Guardian. She is the author of eight books, including The Morning They Came for Us and The Vanishing, both critically acclaimed for their unflinching humanity.