Learning Circle with Lynne O’Donnell

Lynne O’Donnell is an Australian journalist, author, and broadcaster. She has spent many years covering the post-9/11 wars – as far as we can determine she is the only foreign correspondent who was in Afghanistan when the US-led invasion began, in October 2001, and 20 years later when the Americans and their NATO partners left Afghanistan. In 2007, she wrote a best-selling book called “High Tea in Mosul: The True Story of Two English women in War-Torn Iraq”. She was bureau chief in Afghanistan for two of the world’s major news agencies, and in 2011 won the Amnesty International Human Rights Press Award for her series of reports on the lives of women in Afghanistan.

Lynne spoke at an in-person Shahzada Dawood Learning Circle (SDLC) on “A Journalists’ Journey”, sharing her experiences of covering commodity trading to becoming a war journalist. She shared in great length about her time in Afghanistan and what challenges and opportunities she and her larger team faced. Her work shows strength, resilience, and agility.