Amanda Ripley

Amanda Ripley is a senior writer at TIME magazine. She covers risk, terrorism and human behavior. Her 2008 book, "The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why" that explores how the brain works in disasters and how we can do better.

Ripley has written on a wide range of topics, from Barack Obama [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995609,00.html Obama's Ascent, Amanda Ripley. TIME. November 15, 2004.] ] to Hollywood movie piracy. She wrote or helped report " Time's " Person-of-the-Year cover profiles in 2001 (Rudy Giuliani) [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001568,00.html We're Under Attack, Amanda Ripley and Eric Pooley. TIME, December 31, 2001.] ] , 2002 (the Whistleblowers) [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003998,00.html Persons of the Year, Amanda Ripley and Richard Lacayo. TIME. December 30, 2002.] ] , 2003 (the American Soldier) [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601031229,00.html TIME Person of the Year: The American Soldier] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1006537,00.html For Those Left Behind, An Anxious Kinship, Amanda Ripley. TIME. December 29, 2003.] ] and 2005 (Bono and the Gates) [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1142276,00.html From Rags to Riches, Amanda Ripley. TIME. December 19, 2005] ] .

But most of Ripley's stories have been about terrorism or disasters. In 2005, Ripley covered Hurricanes Katrina and Rita from New Orleans, LA. Two years later, she was in "Time's" Paris bureau during the European heat wave, which killed an estimated 50,000 people.Fact|date=May 2008 She covered the D.C. sniper attacks from Washington in 2002. On September 11, 2001, Ripley covered the terrorism attacks on the World Trade Center from Manhattan.

Before joining "Time", Ripley covered the D.C. court system for "Washington City Paper" and reported on Capitol Hill for "Congressional Quarterly". She has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Monthly, and Time Out.

Her Hurricane Katrina reporting helped "Time" win two National Magazine Awards. She has also received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Newswomen's Club of New York and the Washington Monthly, and she is a two-time Livingston Award finalist. She served as deputy bureau chief for "Time"'s D.C. office in 2006. Ripley graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1996 with a B.A. in government.

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* "How to Get Out Alive: The Science of Evacuation" Amanda Ripley. TIME. April 25, 2005.
* "How We Got Homeland Security Wrong" Amanda Ripley. TIME. March 29, 2004.
* "Hurricane Katrina: How did this happen?" Amanda Ripley. TIME. September 4, 2005.
* "The Gangs of New Orleans" Amanda Ripley. TIME. May 14, 2006.
* "How the Coast Guard Gets it Right" Amanda Ripley. TIME. October 23, 2005.
* "Do Parisians Perspire?" Amanda Ripley. TIME. August 25, 2003.
* Official Site: www.AmandaRipley.com [http://www.amandaripley.com]