Biography of Amanda Paulson

2004 winner of the Eliav-Sartawi Awards for Middle East journalism in the Western press category

The winning article, "One Year Later, Middle East Teens Still Cling To Ideals", was published in the Christian Science Monitor on 14 August 2003.

Amanda Paulson has worked for the Christian Science Monitor since May 2000. In September 2003 she moved to Chicago to be the Monitor’s Midwest Bureau Chief. She writes for both news and features sections, on a range of subjects including education, urban and social issues, and regional politics and economics. She and a Monitor photographer first followed four Israeli and Palestinian teens through their summer at Maine’s Seeds of Peace camp in 2002. When three of the four returned the following year, it seemed the perfect opportunity to explore how the ideals of peace at camp could hold up amid the reality of violence back home.

Amanda graduated from Dartmouth College in 1997 with a degree in comparative literature. She worked as an intern for the Nature Conservancy in Costa Rica for a year, and then taught Spanish, French and English literature at an alternative high school in Colorado. An avid outdoorswoman, she has travelled extensively, including studying abroad in France and Kenya.

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