Sam Tranum has worked in journalism for about a decade, writing for publications in the United States (the Charleston Daily Mail 2000 02, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel 2002 04, and Nuclear Intelligence Weekly 2009 11), editing for a paper in India (The Statesman 2011 12), and teaching journalism in Kyrgyzstan (2007 09) and India (2011). He holds an MA in international relations (2007) from the University of Chicago and a BA in social and global studies from Antioch College (2000) in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the United States. Tranum served in the US Peace Corps in Turkmenistan (2004 06), and