Lori Silberman Brauner

Lori Silberman Brauner is a copy editor at New Jersey Jewish News. She also reports on U.N.-related issues as a freelance contributor to PassBlue, an independent digital publication that produces in-depth reports on key issues such as women’s rights, gender equality and development. For the past 18 years, Brauner has worked as a reporter, editor, blogger and freelance writer/reviewer. In addition, she is a freelance writer, editor and a New York-area contributor to the Jerusalem-based Times of Israel. She received a received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Muhlenberg College, a master’s degree in international affairs from Drew University, and a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is proficient in French and Hebrew.

During her ICFJ-UNF Fellowship, Brauner published In Reducing Maternal Deaths, Too Much Care Can Be as Damaging as Too Little and What World Leaders Said — and Left Out — at the UN Refugee-Migrant Meeting.