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Claim your profileAbigail Leonard is an international reporter and news producer, previously based in Tokyo, where she was a frequent contributor to NPR, Time Magazine, and New York Times video. Before moving to Japan, she was a staff producer for PBS, ABC and Al Jazeera America. Her reporting focuses on issues that impact women, including the Japanese MeToo movement; Japanese “salary-women”; caregiver spouses of injured veterans; and women who give birth in private prisons. Her work has earned a National Headliner Award, an Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, an Overseas Press Club Award, and a James Beard Media Award Nomination. She was a 2011 East-West Center Japan Fellow and 2010 UN Foundation Journalism Fellow. She served as First Vice President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, and also chaired its scholarship program. Before she became a journalist, she was a middle school teacher for the New Orleans Public School District through Teach for America.