Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Biography
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist and researcher focusing on women and economic development, and global entrepreneurship.
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, about a young woman whose business supported her family and her community during the Taliban years.
Her reporting on entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict regions has appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the Daily Beast, along with Bloomberg, Politico and the HuffingtonPost.
She is also a Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Books
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
The New York Times Bestseller
The book tells the story of a real-life young entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years.
The story behind the book grew out of a trip to Afghanistan in 2005 when Tzemach Lemmon was assigned to write a story for The Financial Times and a case for Harvard Business School on Afghan women entrepreneurs.
There she met Kamila Sidiqi who had become an entrepreneur under the Taliban. Desperate to support her five brothers and sisters at home and banished from Kabul’s streets by the Taliban, she started a dressmaking business in her living room which offered work to 100 women in her neighborhood.
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