Delphine Schrank

@delphineschrank

Delphine Schrank is a multilingual Mexico-based award-winning immersive, or narrative investigative, journalist who served most recently as chief correspondent for Thomson Reuters covering Mexico and Central America. A contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review and adjunct professor at the New School, she is currently investigating violence and life without meaningful rule of law in Central America. Her first book, “The Rebel of Rangoon; a Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma,” a Kirkus 2015 Best Book of the Year, burrowed into the lives of pro-democracy dissidents over four years in Burma/Myanmar, where she was first dispatched as The Washington Post‘s underground correspondent at a time when foreign journalists were prohibited entry.

A Franco-American raised in the United Kingdom and Belgium, she has lived and worked on four continents. She earned her bachelors degree in Modern History with double First Class honors from Oxford University, and holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.