Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Author and foreign policy writer
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is an American author who writes about women and girls in foreign policy. Her books include The Daughters of Kobani.
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American Born 1973 in Greenbelt, United States
About Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Lemmon worked for ten years in the ABC News Political Unit, then studied for an MBA at Harvard. During her MBA studies she began writing about entrepreneurship in conflict and post-conflict places, including Afghanistan, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia. She later led public policy analysis at the investment firm PIMCO during the global financial crisis. The Daughters of Kobani, published in 2021, tells the story of young women in northeastern Syria who fought ISIS (the Islamic State) and became America's partner on the ground. She has also written the New York Times bestsellers The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and Ashley's War. Lemmon has held an adjunct fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on the board of Mercy Corps. She speaks Spanish, German and French.