Laura Kirkpatrick reports on diplomacy and foreign policy, as well as foreign and U.S. politics. She has written for PassBlue, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women Around the World blog, The Buffalo News, Gannett publications, and various think tanks. A graduate of Hamilton College, Laura obtained a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and had a fellowship with Columbia Business School’s Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics and what is now the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise.