Faye Bowers

Instructor
B.S., Boston University
fbowers@nmu.edu

Journalist Faye Bowers comes to NMU after 20 years of distinguished service at The Christian Science Monitor, where her accomplishments included editing the Monitor’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the mass killings of thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
Until June 2005, Bowers was based in the Monitor’s Washington Bureau, where she reported on  national security issues, focusing mainly on U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon. She spent most of her earlier career in the Monitor’s international news department, where she served as deputy international news editor, as a staff writer reporting on national security and social issues, and as the staff editor responsible for the Monitor’s Middle East and Balkans coverage. In January 2007, Bowers helped the Monitor recover kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll, who had been taken captive by members of Al Qaeda in Baghdad. Earlier, she helped negotiate the release of another Monitor journalist who was captured in the Balkans in 1995.
Bowers has been working as a free-lance journalist for the past three years from Phoenix, Arizona. She has written numerous stories focusing mainly on immigration and other social issues for the Monitor, and also has filled in as an editor on the foreign desk of The Los Angeles Times.
A native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Bowers received a BS in interdisciplinary studies (majoring in international relations and English) from Boston University. She is a member of the International Women’s Media Foundation, and a member of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.