Edith Lederer

Lederer grew up in Long Island. In 1963, Lederer received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and Master of Arts in communications from Stanford University.[2]

Lederer was the first female resident correspondent in Vietnam[3] in 1971[2] and the first woman to head a foreign bureau for the AP,[4] in Lima, Peru in 1975.[5] She worked for the AP for five decades, becoming the chief correspondent at the United Nations. She was named Sigma Delta Tau’s Outstanding Alumna in 2017.[6] She won four lifetime achievement awards from the Overseas Press Club, the International Women's Media Foundation,[7] the Washington Press Club Foundation and the Newswomen's Club of New York. She co-authored "War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Who Covered Vietnam."[8]