Anna Nemtsova is a correspondent for The Daily Beast in Eastern Europe and a contributing writer for USA Today, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone. Her reporting focuses on human rights and social issues in post-Soviet states and Europe and has appeared in Politico and Foreign Policy magazines, nbcnews.com, The Guardian, BBC, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair and Marie Claire.

She is the winner of the Pulitzer Center's 2012 Persephone Miel Fellowship and a 2015 recipient of the IWMF Courage in Journalism award. Anna began reporting on crisis in the North Caucasus and Central Asia more than two decades ago, as a researcher for The Washington Post.