Global I.q. Minute With Jim Falk

Dionne Searcey, author of “In Pursuit of Disobedient Women,” was the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times from 2015 to 2019, winning the Michael Kelly Award for courage in international reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for international reporting for her coverage of Boko Haram. She reported on the American economy for The Times and was an investigative reporter and national legal correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.