Stephanie Nolen (born September 3, 1971 in Montreal) is a Canadian journalist and writer. She is currently the South Asia correspondent for The Globe and Mail. From 2003 to 2008, she was the Globe's Africa correspondent, and she has reported from more than 40 countries around the world. She is a five-time National Newspaper Award winner for her work in Africa, and a three-time recipient of the Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting. Her book on Africa's AIDS pandemic, 28, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award and has been published in 15 countries. She lives in New Delhi.
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Nolen was raised in a Catholic family in Montreal and Ottawa. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax, then earned a Master's degree in economic development from the London School of Economics.
Nolen began working for The Globe and Mail in 1993. In 2001-2002, she served as its correspondent covering the invasion of Afghanistan and the fall of the Taliban. She continued this theme in covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Shortly after this, Nolen requested and was granted the role of the Globe's Africa correspondent. Her dispatches concerned the consequences of war and political instability in a variety of places within Africa, particularly Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Uganda (specifically the Lord's Resistance Army). However, the most recurring theme in her coverage was the health, social, and political consequences of the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Nolen lives in New Delhi with her partner, Meril Rasmussen, a filmmaker. Together they have a son, Darragh, born September 2006. She told Toronto Life magazine that she always said she would not marry Rasmussen until her gay friends could get married. "Now they’re all married and I’m not," she said.