Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Explained

Birth Name:Yael Tzemach
Birth Date:September 7, 1973
Birth Place:Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.
Education:B.A. University of Missouri
M.B.A. Harvard Business School
Occupation:Author, executive, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, producer,[1] journalist
Parents:Rhoda Miriam Spielman Tzemach
Family:Frances Cohen Spielman (grandmother)
Awards:HBS 2006 Dean’s Award

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (born 7 September 1973)[1] 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.[2] [3] [4] She serves as an adjunct senior fellow at the Women and Foreign Policy Program with the Council on Foreign Relations[4] 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,[5] [6] and as a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.[7] She speaks Spanish, German, French and is conversant in Dari and basic Kurmanji.[3]

Education and early career

Born to a Jewish family, the daughter of an Iraqi father and Rhoda Miriam Spielman Tzemach (died 1987). Her mother raised her as a single parent in Greenbelt, Maryland,[8] [2] her grandmother was Frances Cohen Spielman (died 1999), a World War II veteran of Women's Army Corps and an independent film distributor during the 1940s who later founded First Run Features.[9] [10] [11] [12] Her paternal family comes from Iraq, partly from Iraqi Kurdistan. Her father was born in Baghdad but was forced to leave the country as a child due to his religion.[13] [2]

Lemmon earned a BA in journalism summa cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.[5] From 1997 to 2004, she worked in the ABC News Political Unit, where she covered presidential politics and public policy issues, and served as producer in the first year of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.[14] During that time, she visited Spain as a Fulbright Scholar and Germany as a Robert Bosch Fellow.[15] [14]

In 2004, Lemmon started MBA study at Harvard. During the study, she began writing about women's entrepreneurship in conflict and post-conflict zones, traveling to Rwanda and Afghanistan.[16] [14] Lemmon graduated with an MBA two years later, and received the HBS 2006 Dean's Award for her work on the subject.[16] She then continued working on women's entrepreneurship in the world, covering more countries such as Bosnia and Liberia.[17] [18]

From 2006 to 2010, she worked in the executive office and in emerging markets at the global investment firm PIMCO, leading public policy analysis.[19] [14] During the time, she consulted for the World Bank and co-authored a 2008 report Doing Business: Women in Africa.[20] [14] In 2010, she was featured on the cover of the HBS alumni magazine for her work on entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones.[19]

Writing and public speaking career

In 2011, Lemmon wrote the first Tina Brown Newsweek cover article, featuring an interview with Hillary Clinton on former Secretary of State's push to put women at the center of U.S. foreign policy.[21] The same year, her book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, was published by HarperCollins. The story about Kamila Sidiqi, a young Afghan entrepreneur who supports her community under the Taliban rule, was the New York Times nonfiction bestseller.[22] In December 2011, she gave the opening talk at TEDxWomen, in which she described why investing in women can make the difference for the global economy.[23]

She is also the author of Entrepreneurship in Postconflict Zones, a 2012 CFR working paper that argues for comprehensive, long-term, collaborative approaches to help entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict countries overcome challenges in accessing capital, markets, networks, and business skills training.[24] The same year, she began writing a number of pieces on women and girls for The Atlantic,[25] including We Need to Tell Girls They Can Have It All (Even If They Can't),[26] which was mentioned in Sheryl Sandberg's 2013 book Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will to Lead,[27] and on the lessons she learned growing up in a community of single mothers.[28]

In October 2013, Lemmon broke the first media story about how the military could not pay death benefits to fallen soldiers killed in action during the government shutdown.[29] The story attracted the attention of the Pentagon and the White House, and Fisher House eventually stepped in to fill the funding gap until the shutdown ended.[30] In December of the same year, she published a policy innovation memorandum, titled Banking on Growth, making the case for why the United States should support the creation of an American development bank to invest in small and medium-businesses in the world's toughest economies.[31]

In 2014, she authored two CFR working papers on the topic: High Stakes for Young Lives, coauthored with Lynn ElHarake, surveys strategies to stop child marriage;[32] and Fragile States, Fragile Lives that examines the correlation between child marriage and state fragility.[33] This work culminated in a CFR e-book publication Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage.[34] In September the next year, Lemmon reported on the issue of child and forced marriage in the United States for the PBS NewsHour in a two-part series.[35]

Her next book, Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, was published by HarperCollins in 2015. It tells the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from across the U.S. army to serve on combat operations alongside Army Rangers and Navy SEALs in Afghanistan, and of the remarkable hero at its heart: First Lieutenant Ashley White.[36] [37] The book, Lemmon's second New York Times bestseller,[38] is being made into a film by Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, with Lesli Linka Glatter and Molly Smith Metzler attached to direct and write it respectively.[39] Lemmon also gave a TED Talk on Ashley's War at TEDWomen 2015, receiving more than one million views.[40]

In 2021, Penguin Press published The Daughters of Kobani, the latest book authored by Lemmon. It is about a group of Syrian Kurdish women fighting against ISIS.[41] According to Kirkus Reviews, it is "a well-told story of contemporary female warriors and the complex geopolitical realities behind their battles."[42] The story, being another New York Times bestseller,[43] has been optioned by HiddenLight Productions for TV.[44]

Throughout her career, Lemmon has written on women's entrepreneurship and women in the military, forced and child marriage, girls’ ambition and single mothers, along with the role of women and girls in conflict for a variety of news outlets, including The New York Times,[45] [17] Financial Times,[46] Foreign Policy,[47] Ms. Magazine,[48] among others. Lemmon has given talks at the Aspen Security Forum,[49] TED forums,[31] [40] Clinton Global Initiative,[50] West Point,[51] the National Infantry Museum,[52] and so on.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . IMDb.
  2. Web site: Uplift: A Conversation with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . 2021-10-07 . . Shaffner . Joe.
  3. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . Global Thinkers Forum.
  4. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . Council on Foreign Relations.
  5. Web site: Best-Selling Author and Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Joins Mercy Corps Board of Directors. 2013-05-15. Mercy Corps.
  6. Web site: Dressmaker of Khair Khana Author at ICRW . 2011-04-28 . Gaynair . Gillian . ICRW. Author and International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) board member.
  7. Web site: Individual Members. Bretton Woods Committee.
  8. Web site: Washington vs. D.C.: How the Shutdown Pits the Government Against Its City . The Atlantic. October 1, 2013 . I sat next to a woman from Bethesda, a more posh slice of the Washington suburbs than my hometown of Greenbelt. P.G. County .
  9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/12/12/obituaries/65e294e3-c526-4f0a-80b5-19bed17dfa72/ Washington Post: "Frances Cohen Spielman, General Sales Manager, 85"
  10. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/03/name_gayle_tzemach_lemmon_age.html New York Magazine: "Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Doesn’t Notice Whether Vegan Food Is Warm or Cold" by Vanita Salisbury
  11. https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/05/08/embarrassment-of-riches/ Village Voice: "Embarrassment of Riches" by Dennis Lim
  12. https://www.firstrunfeatures.com/presskits/first_run_press/fran.pdf The Independent: "Fran Spielman" interviewed by Eric Breitbart and Morris Sapadin
  13. The Women Who Took on ISIS—and Won: The Daughters of Kobani . 2021-02-10 . . Tzemach Lemmon . Gayle.
  14. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . Pulitzer Center.
  15. Web site: Author Series, March 21, 2011, New York, NY . Women's Foreign Policy Group . 10 . PDF.
  16. News: Extraordinary service . Walsh . Catherine . 2006-06-08.
  17. News: A resilient Bosnia makes up for lost time - Business - International Herald Tribune . Tzemach . Gayle . 2006-07-07 . The New York Times.
  18. How Liberia's New Generation Of Female Entrepreneurs Is Revitalizing The Economy . 2017-03-27 . . Tzemach Lemmon . Gayle.
  19. This Is What I Do . 2010-12-01 . Alumni - Harvard Business School . Emmons . Garry.
  20. Web site: Doing Business: Women in Africa . . 52 . Jozefina Cutura, Amanda Ellis, Melysa Sperber and Gayle Tzemach prepared the case studies..
  21. Web site: Hillary Clinton's War for Women's Rights . 2011-03-01 . . Tzemach Lemmon . Gayle . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512034754/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-06/hillary-clintons-mission-to-help-women-and-girls-worldwide . 2011-05-12.
  22. Web site: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers - Books - April 17, 2011 . The New York Times.
  23. Web site: Women entrepreneurs, example not exception . 2011-12-01 . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach . TEDxWomen 2011 . . Video.
  24. Web site: Entrepreneurship in Postconflict Zones . 2012-05-14 . . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach.
  25. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . . 25 May 2015.
  26. We Need to Tell Girls They Can Have It All (Even If They Can't) . 2012-06-29 . . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach.
  27. Book: Sandberg, Sheryl . Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will To Lead . WH Allen . 2013 . 9780753541623 . 18.
  28. In Praise of Single Mothers . 2012-05-11 . . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach.
  29. The Shutdown's Effect on Grieving Military Familie . 2013-10-08 . . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach . Defense One.
  30. Web site: Fisher House Rescues DoD on Death Benefits During Shutdown . 2013-10-09 . Defense One . Gaskell . Stephanie.
  31. Web site: Banking on Growth: U.S. Support for Small and Medium Enterprises in Least-Developed Countries . 2013-12-09 . 2020-06-06 . Gayle Tzemach . Lemmon . Council on Foreign Relations.
  32. Web site: High Stakes for Young Lives . 2014-04-14 . 2021-06-06 . Gayle Tzemach . Lemmon . Lynn S. . ElHarake . Council on Foreign Relations.
  33. Web site: Fragile States, Fragile Lives . 2014-06-11 . 2021-06-06 . Gayle Tzemach . Lemmon . Council on Foreign Relations.
  34. Book: Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach . . 2014 . 978-0-87609-591-1 . ElHarake . Lynn S..
  35. Web site: Child and Forced Marriage in America. 2016-09-14. Lemmon. Gayle Tzemach. PBS.
  36. Web site: Ashley's War . Council on Foreign Relations.
  37. News: Ricks . Thomas . 'Ashley's War': A look at the use of Cultural Support Teams in Afghanistan . 29 April 2015 . Foreign Policy.
  38. Web site: E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers - Books - May 10, 2015 . The New York Times.
  39. Web site: Kroll. Justin. 2020-11-12. 'Homeland' Director Lesli Linka Glatter To Direct Adaptation Of 'Ashley's War' For Universal; Molly Smith Metzler Penning Script. 2020-11-13. Deadline. en-US.
  40. Web site: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war . TEDWomen 2015 . . May 2015 . Gayle Tzemach . Lemmon . Video.
  41. News: Nawaz . Amna . How a small but powerful band of women led the fight against ISIS . 22 February 2021 . Foreign Policy.
  42. Web site: THE DAUGHTERS OF KOBANI . Kirkus Reviews.
  43. Web site: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers - Books - March 7, 2021 . The New York Times.
  44. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Developing Female Kurdish Militia Drama for TV . 2021-01-25 . . Goldberg . Lesley.
  45. Web site: The Women of the Army Rangers' Cultural Support Teams . 2015-09-14 . . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach.
  46. News: Afghan women break into a 'man's world . Tzemach . Gayle . 2006-01-10 . Financial Times.
  47. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . Foreign Policy.
  48. Web site: Gayle Lemmon . Ms. Magazine.
  49. Web site: The Security State, Women in the Military, and More . 2016-07-29 . . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach.
  50. News: Buzz over Clinton 2016 . 2012-09-24 . Politico.
  51. Web site: The Story Behind "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield" . 2015-09-11 . The West Point Center for Oral History. . Lemmon . Gayle Tzemach.
  52. News: 'Ashley's War' author to speak at National Infantry Museum . Williams . Chuck . 2016-03-07 . Ledger-Enquirer.
  53. Web site: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon . Defense One . 2019-09-30.

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