About Jan  JAN GOODWIN is an award-winning journalist and author, and writer for: The New York Times Magazine; The Nation; Harper's Bazaar; O, the Oprah Magazine; Reader's Digest; Conceive; Family Circle; Good Housekeeping; Ladies' Home Journal; Redbook; Glamour; AARP; New York Magazine; Discover; Self, and Utne.
Bylines have also appeared in Biography; Cosmopolitan; Jane; Lifetime; McCall's; Mademoiselle; New Woman; Rosie; Spirituality & Health; and UN publications. She is also is a Contributing Editor for More Magazine, and Senior International Editor for Marie-Claire Magazine.
Article topics include: reportage; criminal justice; medical and health; war, conflict and human rights; and profiles.
Jan's prior experience includes being: Executive Editor at Ladies' Home Journal; and at Us Magazine, when it was launched by The New York Times Magazine Development Company. She was Editor-in-Chief of On The Issues, a political women's quarterly; and News Editor of Britain's largest news and feature syndication agency.  Her interviews include heads of state, royalty and rebel leaders, plus celebrities and political profiles.
She has covered wars/unrest in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, the Middle East and Gulf, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Uganda. In a hiatus from journalism, Goodwin started and ran the U.S. Save the Children's multi-million humanitarian program in Peshawar for war-torn Afghanistan for four years. Funded by USAID, the UN, and EU, projects included  transporting humanitarian aid under war-torn conditions, reconstruction of bomb-damaged infrastructure, including schools, hospitals and clinics; mother & child health; income-generating/microenterprise.
Her involvement with Save the Children was an outgrowth of her longtime human rights activism.
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