Emily Schmall, award-winning New York Times correspondent and co-author of the Times' recent groundbreaking series, Daughters of India, will be a featured speaker at the 2024 Camden Conference, INDIA: Rising Ambitions, Challenges at Home.

 As a South Asia correspondent for the Times, she covered, among many subjects, India’s struggles to include more women in its booming economy. She also covered government policy, social uprisings, wealth and inequality and the rise of Hindu nationalism. She is now based in Chicago. 

Before joining the New York Times, Schmall was an Associated Press correspondent in South Asia and Texas, and prior to that was a roving foreign correspondent with datelines from a dozen countries across five continents. Schmall’s reporting has appeared in the BBC, the Miami Herald, Newsweek, the Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, World Policy Journal, Salon and Forbes. She has won awards for her coverage of Ebola in Dallas and for an investigation of sexual assaults in U.S. public schools.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Bard College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

The 37th annual Camden Conference, INDIA: Rising Ambitions, Challenges at Home, will be presented live at the Camden Opera House the weekend of February 16-18, 2024, as well as live-streamed to the Strand Theatre in Rockland, Luther Bonney Hall on the USM campus in Portland and available virtually to homes and classrooms worldwide. For the full roster of 2024 Conference speakers, and for information about memberships and ticket sales, please visit camdenconference.org .

The Camden Conference is a nonprofit, non-partisan volunteer-driven citizens' forum, whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues through year-round public engagement in community events and student education programs, culminating in an annual February weekend conference.