Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil is an editor for the Guardian's "Our unequal earth" and "Guns and lies" series. A graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Divinity School and a former U.S. Fulbright scholar to Sri Lanka, she was previously deputy editor of NBC Asian America and has written for publications including the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, NBC News, the Orange County Register, Religion News Service, Sojourners, the Christian Century, Tricycle, Angelus, Moment and Lion's Roar. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Orange County Press Club, the Catholic Press Association, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Journalism and Women Symposium. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.