The World Fellows

Journalist

Garentina Kraja has reported on political issues, security, terrorism, and economics in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Albania for the Associated Press. At age 19, she began working as a journalist covering the conflict in Kosovo, initially for Koha Ditore, Kosovo's first independent newspaper. An activist, she also helped establish the post-pessimists, a group of young people from the former Yugoslav states who have held "ethnic tolerance" conferences throughout Europe. Kraja was one of the first journalists to report on the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. As a result of her coverage of sensitive topics, she was eventually forced to flee to Macedonia, where she continued her reporting as a refugee.  After the war ended and Kosovo was placed under UN rule, Kraja reported on Kosovo's Serb minority who faced reprisal attacks by ethnic Albanians. She is currently studying for a Bachelor’s Degree at Yale.

 

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Publications:

A World Away, The Yale Globalist, Fall 2008.