Sarah Chayes

From 1997 to 2002, Sarah Chayes served as an overseas
correspondent for NPR, reporting from Paris and the Balkans,
as well as covering conflicts in Algeria. When war broke out
in Afghanistan in 2001, NPR sent her to report from Quetta,
Pakistan, and then from inside Afghanistan, based in the
southern city of Kandahar, as the Taliban fell. In 2002, she
left NPR to take a position running a nongovernmental aid
organization, Afghans for Civil Society, founded by Qayum
Karzai. Now she has launched her own artisanal agribusiness,
called Arghand. Her work as a correspondent for NPR during
the Kosovo crisis earned her, together with other members of
the NPR team, the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta
Chi awards.