Michele Kelemen
Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR News programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
As Diplomatic Correspondent, Kelemen has traveled with Secretaries of State from Colin Powell to Antony Blinken and everyone in between. She was part of the NPR team that won the 2007 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the war in Iraq.
As NPR's Moscow bureau chief, Kelemen chronicled the end of the Yeltsin era and Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power. She recounted the terrible toll of the latest war in Chechnya, while also reporting on a lighter side of Russia, with stories about modern day Russian literature and sports.
Kelemen came to NPR in September 1998, after eight years working for the Voice of America. There, she learned the ropes as a news writer, newscaster and show host.
Michele earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Russian and East European Affairs and International Economics.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she's looking for 21st century solutions to a centuries old problem: Piracy. She says the U.S. will work with its partners to freeze the assets of pirates who have been raiding ships off the coast of Somalia. She's also trying to work with officials on land in a lawless country in the horn of Africa.
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Sudan kicked out more than a dozen groups helping people in Darfur after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for its president. Now, President Omar al-Bashir says he wants all foreign aid groups out within a year. Activists are calling for President Obama to take action. -
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Turkey on the last stop of what might be called her outreach trip. She's been trying to show that the Obama administration is willing to test the waters with countries like Syria and Iran.
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On her first official trip abroad since joining the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton is defining the kind of secretary of State she wants to be. Because she is well-known and admired, ordinary people, especially young people, have been eager to hear her.
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Some say the Calderon government is incapable of providing basic security for Mexicans, and that the president needs more help fighting the drug cartels. Officials in Washington are trying to figure out how better to help America's southern neighbor.
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The Obama adminstration's special representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan is heading on his first trip to the region. Richard Holbrooke is perhaps best known as the architect of the Bosnian peace agreement. He will meet with regional leaders as he tries to coordinate a new administration strategy on Afghanistan.
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