Biz Herman, Author at The GroundTruth Project

Biz Herman

Biz Herman is a Boston-born researcher and journalist currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on international relations and political psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests center on the politics of history and the impact of trauma on conflict recurrence. She spent 2011 in Bangladesh as a Fulbright Fellow, researching how politics influence the writing of national histories in textbooks. Upon returning to the U.S., she worked for as a freelance photo and written journalist for a number of national and international news outlets, based in New York and reporting from both home and abroad. As a Generation TBD reporting fellow with The GroundTruth Project, she covered the youth unemployment crisis in Bosnia, where youth joblessness rates hover around 60 percent. Her ongoing project, A Woman’s War, is an oral history and documentary photography project examining the lives of women who have served in conflict worldwide, taking the work to six countries on four continents. Biz also serves as a journalism and documentary filmmaking instructor at NuVu Studio teaching intensive, hands-on workshops to middle school and high school students in Boston, MA and Mumbai, India. Her research and photography have been featured in The New York Times, TIME, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, Newsweek Japan, NPR, Jezebel, and The Daily Beast, among others.

Democracy

Voting in America’s most liberal state

Voting in America’s most liberal state: 'Deeply Personal' Lila Carrillo feels that the painful rhetoric of this election...

Nov 02, 2016

An attendee watches the speeches at the RNC. (Composite image by Biz Herman/GroundTruth)

Democracy

The art of the American political narrative

Watching the conventions for the two major American political parties – the Republicans in Cleveland and the Democrats...

Aug 11, 2016

Middle East

The Voice & the Veil: Egypt’s Revolutionary Women

CAIRO, Egypt — When Bothaina Kamel began gathering signatures for her campaign to be not only Egypt’s first democratically...

Aug 01, 2012

Middle East

A conversation with two Egyptian feminists

CAIRO, Egypt — A year and a half after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the fight for women’s...

Aug 01, 2012

Middle East

Writing Egypt’s history, with revolution in her DNA

CAIRO, Egypt — The room at TEDx Tanta is dark, packed, waiting. The announcer singsongs the name of...

May 25, 2012