Jennifer Bréa
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	Biography Jennifer Brea is a freelance writer, sometimes photographer, and aspiring political scientist. She is Francophonia editor at Global Voices where she translates and curates French-speaking blogospheres of Africa, the Middle East, Oceania and the Americas, and also blogs commentary on African politics at Africabeat and photographs at her Flickr photostream. Jennifer started her illustrious writing career at Caijing, China ’s leading business magazine, where all her early work was translated into a Chinese so beautiful and pure, she could barely understand it. One day in March, she chose to make the risky crossover to her native language. Since, Jennifer’s written for the Guardian, the Scotsman, and the American, among other publications; has thrice commented on Chinese investment in Africa for the BBC; and has been known to blog for the Guardian’s Comment is Free on occasion. Most recently she writes The New World, a column for EbonyJet. When not at home in Beijing, Jennifer travels…to Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Mexico, Guatemala, Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, Ghana, India, Japan and possibly some other places she’s forgotten. Her ancestors came to the New World from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Wanderlust is embedded deep in her genetic code. In other words, she can’t help it. Jennifer graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2005 and will begin doctoral studies in political science at Harvard this fall. She speaks French, Spanish, English and Chinese, but not in that order. CV