Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (born 7 September 1973) is an author who has written on the role of women and girls in foreign policy. She has held private sector roles in
emerging technology for national security as well as financial services. She serves as an adjunct senior fellow at the Women and Foreign Policy Program with the
Council on Foreign Relations and has written the New York Times bestsellers ''
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana'' (2011), ''Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield'' (2015) and ''The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice'' (2021). A graduate of the
University of Missouri and the
Harvard Business School, Lemmon has covered a variety of topics such as women's entrepreneurship,
women in the military, forced and child marriage,
Syria and
Afghanistan. She has also served as a board member of the
Mercy Corps and the
International Center for Research on Women, and as a member of the
Bretton Woods Committee. She speaks
Spanish,
German,
French and is conversant in
Dari and basic
Kurmanji.
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