Kelly Hearn is a former writer for ThoughtCo. He wrote about national security and diplomacy. His investigative reporting has been funded by The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Nation Institute, and the North American Congress on Latin America He is a correspondent to The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, and National Geographic News.
Kelly studied political science at The University of Tennessee and Dundee University in Scotland.
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