Sai Jallow Edelstein

Sai Jallow Edelstein was born and raised, for the most part, in the smallest country on mainland Africa: the Gambia. She spent her childhood reading every book she could get her hands on—including those on shelves assumed safely out of her reach. A peripatetic life with longer stints in the Gambia, Sierra Leone, England, Canada, Ethiopia, and now the United States, coupled with an eclectic education in law, biology, political science, and economics, have given her a wry and incisive perspective on the human experience. Since finding her spiritual home in Judaism, Sai lives in Virginia with her husband, newborn daughter, and their dog, Plato.