ライザ・マンディは、女性の仕事や家族、アメリカの情報機関の歴史を取材してきたジャーナリスト、ノンフィクション作家。プリンストン大学を卒業し、バージニア大学で英文学の修士号を取得した。『ワシントン・ポスト』紙の記者を経て、『アトランティック』『ポリティコ』『スミソニアン』などに寄稿。ニューアメリカでは、家計を支える仕事とケアの役割を扱うプログラムの責任者や、Better Life Labのシニアフェローを務め、女性の経済的な地位と家庭生活の変化を取材した。こうした女性と労働への関心は、公式の歴史では見えにくかった情報活動の担い手をたどる仕事にもつながっている。『コード・ガールズ――日独の暗号を解き明かした女性たち』（原題 “Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II”）では、第二次世界大戦中にアメリカ陸海軍の暗号解読へ動員された一万人を超える女性たちを取り上げた。取材や史料を通じて、その専門的な仕事と戦後まで続いた秘密保持の実態を描き、2018年に情報機関出身者の団体Association of Former Intelligence Officersによる一般向けインテリジェンス最優秀書に選ばれた。『ザ・シスターフッド――CIAの女たち』（原題 “The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA”）では、前身のOSSから冷戦、9・11同時多発テロ、ビンラディン追跡に至る女性たちの活動を、百を超える証言から再構成した。三世代の職員をたどり、採用や昇進をめぐる障壁、分析と現場活動の成果、女性同士のつながりを描いた。
Liza Mundy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer whose reporting has examined women’s work, family life, and the history of American intelligence. She earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Virginia. A former Washington Post staff writer, she has contributed to The Atlantic, Politico, and Smithsonian. At New America, she directed the Breadwinning and Caregiving program and served as a senior fellow with the Better Life Lab, working on questions concerning paid employment, care, and women’s changing economic roles. Her historical reporting also investigated women whose professional contributions had remained outside familiar accounts of intelligence work. “Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II” reconstructed the lives and work of more than 10,000 women recruited into American military codebreaking. Through interviews and documentary research, it explored their technical responsibilities and the secrecy surrounding their service. The Association of Former Intelligence Officers selected it as its Best General Audience Intelligence Book for 2018. “The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA” drew on more than 100 testimonies to trace women’s intelligence work from the wartime Office of Strategic Services through the Cold War, the September 11 attacks, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Following three generations of women, it examined barriers to recruitment and promotion, their achievements in analysis and operations, and the professional networks they built.
