Tara McKelvey

Tara McKelvey is a White House reporter for BBC News. She has contributed to The New York Times Book Review and is the author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, which former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has described as "a shocker . . .an indictment of an administration in which no senior official has been held accountable for acts that stained America’s escutcheon." Her work has appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and other publications. She was a 2011 Guggenheim fellow, a New York University School of Law's Center on Law and Security research fellow, an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a fellow in the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Religion and Science program and in Johns Hopkins University's International Reporting Project, and a 2010 fellow with the Alicia Patterson Foundation covering the military. Last updated July 2017