Anne Sengès is a French journalist based in San Francisco. She first discovered the U.S. in the summer of 1991, while a student at the University of Paris, when she landed a summer job at New York’s most beloved symbol: the Statue of Liberty. She ended up settling in San Francisco where she received a Master of Art in Journalism from UC Berkeley and was the recipient of the Susan Yoachum Prize for demonstrated excellence in political reporting. Anne became a foreign correspondent and her stories, ranging from post-war Lebanon to Hong Kong’s economic downturn to the daily life of Muslim women in New York in the aftermath of 9/11, were published in a number of French and international publications. From San Francisco she chronicled the birth and death of the dotcom phenomenon. She also covered the Michael Jackson’s trial and the war on foie-gras in California for French TV station Canal Plus. A former editor of France Today , the magazine of French Travel and Culture, Anne now writes for a number of French publications including Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, Terra Eco and La Tribune. Her latest book Eco Tech: moteurs de la croissance verte en Californie et en France on the clean tech revolution in California and in France was published in November 2009. Her first book Ethnik: le marketing de la différence (published in 2003), examined the face of a Latino-Black-Asian America through the rise of commercial multiculturalism. Her in-depth features ranging from rape and domestic abuse on an Indian reservation to the daily life of prostitutes in Nevada’s most famous brothel are distributed all over the world by Reportage by Getty Images.