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Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist based in London. She is currently global news editor at New Lines Magazine. She has reported on Afghan refugees and the war in Ukraine for TIME magazine and spent almost a decade in Russia and the former Soviet space, recently as Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. Between Russia tours, she was Reuters senior correspondent in Afghanistan. She has held posts with Foreign Policy and The Wall Street Journal, and has also reported for The Atlantic, Politico, The Guardian, Haaretz and more. She was a 2014 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and is the founder of Sahar Speaks, a program offering training and publishing opportunities for Afghan female journalists. This won her the British Press Award for Innovation in 2016. Amie holds a bachelor and Masters degree in Russian Studies from University College London. She sits on the board of trustees at Rukhshana Media.