Janine Di Giovanni, is the author of eight books, a war correspondent, and Executive Director of the Reckoning Project. She earned her BA at the University of Maine and her MFA at the University of Iowa. She began her reporting career in 1987, covering the first Palestinian intifada for the London Times. Describing herself as a human rights reporter with a focus on war crimes and crimes against humanity, she has reported on genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria, and was one of the few reporters who witnessed the fall of Grozny in Chechnya. She covered the war in Kosovo with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Reported for The Times and Vanity Fair in Afghanistan and Iraq. After becoming the Middle East editor for Newsweek, Janine began working in Egypt, Kurdistan, Lebanon, North Africa, and South Sudan. In 2022, Janine founded the Reckoning Project, a non-governmental organization that trains conflict journalists and researchers to gather legally admissible testimonies documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.