Stephanie Nolen

Stephanie Nolen, BJour, MSc, LLD
Award-winning Canadian journalist and author

Stephanie Nolen is the Latin America correspondent for the Globe and Mail. She has reported from more than 75 countries around the world. She is a seven-time winner of the National Newspaper Award for coverage that has taken her from war zones to AIDS clinics, from the mountains of Lesotho to the desert villages of Afghanistan.

Nolen has been recognized for coverage of Africa’s AIDS pandemic; public health across the developing world; conflicts in Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, El Salvador and the DR Congo; and the fight for social justice in South American slums. Her multimedia project on caste and gender discrimination in India won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, presented to the top foreign correspondent covering India.

Prior to her posting in Africa, Nolen covered development issues and conflicts, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before joining the Globe and Mail in 1998, she was based in the Middle East and wrote for publications including Newsweek and The Independent of London.

She has been recognized with a number of awards for her work, including the Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011 and most recently 2015, for coverage of the child migrant crisis in Central America

She is also the author of Promised the Moon: the Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race (2002); Shakespeare’s Face (2002), which has been published in seven countries; and Out of India (2013). Her best-selling book 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa has been published in 11 countries and seven languages.

A native of Montreal, Nolen holds a Bachelor of Journalism (Hons) from the University of King’s College in Halifax and a Master of Science in development economics from the London School of Economics in England. She has been conferred Honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws degrees from the University of King’s College, the University of Victoria, and Guelph University.