womAn of the week
A collection of groundbreaking, exceptional, trailblazing women in the arts industries.
Woman of the Week highlights female writers, film photographers, directors and artists who set the path for the generations that followed them and continue to inspire female creatives today
Marie Colvin
Happy International Woman’s Day! Our Woman of the Week for today is Marie Colvin!
Born and raised in Queens, Marie Colvin is known for her extensive foreign affairs coverage for The Sunday Times. From 1985 until her death in 2012, Marie worked as a war correspondent in Libya (where she was the first to interview Muammar Gaddafi after the after Operation El Dorado Canyon), Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq.