Dimitry Elias Léger

Dimitry Elias Léger was born in 1971 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in both Port-au-Prince and New York City. Educated at St. John’s University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he has worked as a journalist and a humanitarian. He has been a staff editor and writer at prominent news outlets like Fortune magazine, The Miami Herald, and The Source magazine, the seminal hip-hop music and culture monthly, and he has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, and The Face magazine in the UK. In 2010, he served as a spokesperson for United Nations disaster relief programs in Haiti in the immediate aftermath of a devastating earthquake. He lives with his family in France.