


From 1997 to 2004, she covered presidential politics and public policy issues for the ABC News Political Unit and served as an editorial producer during the first year of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." In 2004, she left ABC News to pursue her interest in international development and began MBA study at Harvard. Lemmon began her career as a journalist in Washington. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author most recently of The New York Times bestseller "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield" (2015) as well as The New York Times bestseller "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana" (2011), about a young entrepreneur who supported her community under the Taliban.
