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Agnes Kamara-Umunna

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Agnes Kamara-Umunna was born in Liberia, where she hosted the radio program Straight From the Heart and is a statement taker for the Liberia Truth & Reconciliation Commission. She lives in New York with her three children.

Emily Holland is an in-house producer and reporter for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has contributed to Jane Magazine, the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and writes a “Dispatches from a Humanitarian Journalist” column for Dave Eggers’s online publication McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

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