Molly Bingham grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and went to Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, before getting her BA in 1990 at Harvard College in Medieval European History.
Bingham returned to Africa in the spring of 2001, working on a story for the New York Times Sunday Magazine on the mining of the mineral coltan that is used to coat computer chips.
On September 11th, 2001, Bingham was in western Virginia on a training course for journalists, but returned to Washington, D.C. to photograph the Pentagon and the feeling in the capital in the wake of the attacks for the New Yorker.
The film was reported over ten months in Baghdad in 2003 and 2004, and features interviews with Iraqis (and one Syrian) directly involved in the violent resistance to the occupation of the country.
Molly is currently president and CEO of Orb Media, a non-profit journalism organization whose research and global reporting produces stories that matter to billions of people around the world.