Charmaine Seitz

Charmaine Seitz is a writer, designer, and analyst who reported for almost 20 years in the Palestinian town of Ramallah, writing about the peak years of the Oslo negotiations process from 1993 – 2012. She has been published in the Economist, Janes intelligence Digest, The Nation, In These Times, MERIP, San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. She was a founding editor for the acclaimed joint Israel and Palestinian web zine Bitterlemons and edited the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies. She also ran a breaking news service for the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. She currently lives in Pennsylvania where she manages a communications consulting company, Seitz Communications, that serves the international humanitarian aid and development sector. Her company produces writing, editing, design, and grant proposals for non-profit organizations, focusing on gender equality, child rights, refugees and displacement, and conflict situations.