New York Times foreign correspondent and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Rukmini Callimachi has become the go-to reporter on the Islamic State. She is born in Communist Romania, Callimachi and her family fled the country when she was five years old. She attended elementary school in Switzerland, before immigrating to America at the age of 10. Callimachi graduated from Dartmouth College and earned her master's in linguistics from Exexter College, Oxford