Tired of just reading about Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion, Mary Crane decided in June 2007 to leave her job as a Forbes.com journalist in New York City and see Afghanistan firsthand. She currently lives in Kabul as a report-writer for a development consultancy that is working to help improve Afghanistan's legal system. There, she is finally working on the issues and with the people she had only been able to read about, first as an editor at the Council on Foreign Relations, a foreign policy think tank, and before that, as a graduate politics student at New York University. Mary received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and has worked as a writer in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and, now, in Afghanistan.
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