Eleanor Stables is Associate Editor at The American. Before joining the magazine in February 2008, she was a reporter at Congressional Quarterly for two and a half years. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times online, International Herald Tribune, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic News, Washingtonian, and The American Spectator online. Miss Stables has been interviewed on NPR and WABC. In 2003, she received a Fulbright Professional Grant in Journalism to write about terrorism in Spain. She was editor of the University of Virginia’s weekly newsmagazine, The Declaration. Originally from London, she now lives in Washington, D.C.