['Helen Benedict is a novelist and journalist whose book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War\nof Women in Iraq that provided vivid details of sexual assaults of women in the military that won the attention of the Pentagon and the White House. Benedict won the Ida B. Wells award given to writers who champion the causes of people of color. She is a professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Helen Benedict is a novelist and journalist whose book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women in Iraq that provided vivid details of sexual assaults of women in the military that won the attention of the Pentagon and the White House. Benedict won the Ida B. Wells award given to writers who champion the causes of people of color. She is a professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.')])]