Suzanne DeRouen was previously an editor for the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s The Kurdish Globe — the first English-language newspaper in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq — where she edited reports and analyses on regional democracy, human rights, issues concerning the central vs. regional governments, Iraqi Kurdish-Turkish issues and more. Previous editorial duties have also based her in New York City, where she worked for Scholastic and was part of the Scholastic Red Star award-winning team covering 9/11, which occurred 12 blocks from the Scholastic office.