Karen Fragala Smith (New York, NY): Karen Fragala Smith is the Associate Editor in the Foreign Department of Newsweek, where she has worked for over a decade, interviewing notable figures including Benazir Bhutto, Madeleine Albright, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel. Smith is currently working on her first nonfiction book, “Welcome to Your World: A Friendly Guide to Global Affairs” to be published in late 2009. Smith has lectured at Tsinghua University in Beijing China on The History and Meaning of Hip-Hop Music, The Roots and Rites of the American Dream and The Significance of the Chinese Olympics. Smith holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, and is fluent in English and Spanish.