Lauren Frayer is an international reporter who currently covers India for NPR News.Before moving to India, Frayer was a freelance reporter based in Madrid, and reporting from Seoul, London, Istanbul, Islamabad, Paris, and Jerusalem. She also served as a guest host of Weekend Edition Sunday. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the BBC.Frayer's journalism career began in the Middle East, where she was an editor on the Associated Press' Middle East regional desk in Cairo. After that, she covered the Israel-Hezbollah war in Syria and southern Lebanon, and then spent a year embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq.Frayer was born and raised in a suburb of New York City. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from The College of William & Mary in Virginia.