Azadeh Ensha is a writer for The New York Times and nytimes.com. She was previously an associate editor at Condé Nast Digital and contributing editor at Lifehacker. She is also a contributor to The Times’ Green, The Lede and Wheels blogs, and helped cover the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the paper’s Rings blog. Azadeh volunteers for the International Rescue Committee and the Omid-e-Mehr Foundation. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from U.C.L.A., and received a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School. Azadeh was born in Tehran, Iran and lives in Brooklyn, New York.