Natsuko Utsumi

内海夏子

I have been an author and journalist/photographer who worked in New York City for 15 years. Throughout my journalistic career, I have reported on war and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone, and the deforestation of the Central American rainforest, as well as gender issues such as domestic violence, teenage motherhood, sexual abuse of girl children, Hospice Care in America and Female Genital Mutilation, among many, for publications including Time, Newsweek, Japanese Esquire, New York Magazine, Paris Match, Cosmopolitan magazine.

Although most of my work require much preliminary research as well as field work, particularly the authored book "Document Female Genital Mutilation" ­(Shueisha Publishing, 2003) drew on travel to six African countries over three years of extensive research. http://www.natsukoutsumi.com

Having completed a Master degree in Public Administration at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in June 2007, I founded a Not for profit Organization CAUSE VISION in 2010. http://causevision.org

I am also currently working on a book project on "Honor related crimes and immigration in Europe".