Project: "Pyramid Scheme: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt."

Bio:

 After leaving Cairo, Evelina traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to cover a corporate fraud trial and then to Mississippi to cover the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina for The Wall Street Journal. She later visited the Gulf Coast repeatedly to volunteer in the recovery efforts. One of the projects she started was a newsletter for the citizens of Pass Christian, Miss., one of the small cities hardest-hit by the storm. That newsletter eventually became a full-fledged newspaper, the Pass Christian Gazebo Gazette, a weekly newspaper which has been in continuous operation since 2006. In 2008 she received an Alumni Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in recognition of her efforts in Pass Christian after Hurricane Katrina. Previously, Evelina was a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in London, and a staff writer at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Swarthmore College.