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Jeffrey E. Stern

Jeffrey E. Stern is the author of <a href="http://jeffreyestern.com/the-last-thousand" target="_hplink">The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War</a> and <a href="http://www.jeffreyestern.com/" target="_hplink">The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes. </a>

Jeffrey E. Stern is the author of The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War and The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes. In addition to his work in Afghanistan, Stern has traveled widely, reporting on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the conflict in Kashmir, narcotics trafficking in Argentina, Russian Intelligence and organized crime, and Oklahoma’s death row. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Esquire, Foreign Policy, Time Magazine, Newsweek and The New Republic. He has been named both a Pulitzer Center Fellow for Crisis Reporting and a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation. He helped launch the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative in Afghanistan, and the International Engagement Program at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA. He received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a master’s degree in international policy from Stanford University. Originally from Philadelphia, he now lives in Washington, D.C. The Last Thousand is his first book.

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