Aryn Baker

Aryn Baker is an American journalist who is Time magazine's Africa correspondent. She was previously based in Beirut, Lebanon, for Time as the Middle East bureau chief, and has been a correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Early life Baker attended Sarah Lawrence College from 1991 to 1995 and received her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and literature. She then received her master's degree in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. While at UC Berkeley, Baker explored radio journalism, foreign reporting and longform writing.

Career Baker worked as a freelance journalist in print and radio while earning her master's at UC Berkeley. She produced a weekly radio show for KALX at Berkeley and interned at KQED in San Francisco.

Baker became the Africa bureau chief for Time magazine in September 2014, and is now in this position, living in Cape Town, South Africa. She covers politics, art, technology, society, health and other social conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa. Baker's most recent stories from earlier this year have been covering Zika, Boko Haram, corruption in military defense spending, and women facing rape in war-ridden Uganda and Congo. The story was about an Afghan woman whose nose had been cut off by Taliban, and the gripping details caused an uproar in national and international women's rights debates, the Taliban and U.S. troops. where she explored the origins of the virus and where it's headed around the world.

Baker did a series of stories on the "secret war crime" in Africa, which generally is the epidemic of wartime rape that has been plaguing African countries for many years.

Volunteer experiences Baker became a member of the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2005.

Personal life Baker is married to Tamim Samee, an Afghan-American IT entrepreneur. She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

She is fluent in French and English.