Scott Carney

Investigative journalist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. He is a contributing editor at Wired and his work also appears in Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside, and Fast Company. He has appeared on a variety of radio and television stations including NPR and National Geographic TV. In 2010 he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for the story "Meet the Parents" which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring . His first book, "The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers" was published by William Morrow in 2011. He first traveled to India while he was a student at Kenyon College in 1998 where he learned hindi. He has spent more than half a decade in South Asia.