![]() In 2010, Abawi was hired by NBC News to report and manage its operations in Afghanistan. She then became CNN’s Afghanistan correspondent and manager of its Kabul bureau-an operation that she organized and set up-and often traveled and embedded with U.S., NATO, and Afghan forces. After making her way to the international desk at CNN, Abawi was soon out in the field, serving as a producer on stories that included Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Pakistan and the war in Iraq. ![]() ![]() While in Maryland, she covered a wide range of stories-from politics to the impact of drugs and crime on the local community-before being hired in the Media Operations department at CNN and moving to Atlanta. ![]() ![]() Award-winning foreign correspondent and author Atia Abawi, who just concluded her third and final two-week visit to University School of Milwaukee as the school’s first author-in-residence, will be returning one final time this school year to serve as the featured speaker at USM’s Commencement exercises on Friday, June 9.Ī graduate of Virginia Tech University, from which she has since earned the college’s Outstanding Alumna honor, Abawi began a career in journalism while a student there, anchoring the college’s local television station before being hired at a local television station, CTV 76, in Largo, Maryland. ![]()
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