Education:

Nadine holds a BA and MA in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and studied Middle Eastern affairs at Tel Aviv University. As a research associate for Swarthmore College, she researched the distribution of food and aid in Kenya and Egypt for a project supported by USAID and the Rockefeller Foundation. Later, she was a university fellow in the political science doctoral program at Columbia University. Still, Nadine’s exposure to the world’s complexities came not only from formal education but from childhood summers working on the Asbury Park, NJ, boardwalk; many different kinds of jobs; and extensive travels, including a solo hitchhiking journey through Eastern Europe before the fall of the Iron Curtain and another, with her guitar, throughout Central America. As a Kellogg Fellow for Public Service in Journalism, a fellowship of the Knight Wallace Fellowship program at the University of Michigan, she explored the mind-body relationship.