Dr. Xanthe Ackerman is a journalist with the Fuller Project for International Reporting, a bureau reporting on women in foreign policy. Dr. Ackerman has been a scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and at Brookings' Centre for Education, and she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is founder of Advancing Girls' Education in Africa, an international nonprofit supporting secondary school education. Her writing appears in a range of publications including: TIME, the Guardian, VICE News, the Christian Science Monitor, the Daily Beast, Al-Fanar Media, and others.