Deborah Copaken Kogan is a Jewish, American photojournalist and author. She was born Deborah Elizabeth Copaken in Boston, MA and grew up first in Adelphi then Potomac, Maryland. Kogan attended Harvard University, and worked as a photographer based in Paris, France, traveling to Zimbabwe, Zurich, Afghanistan, Israel, Romania, the Soviet Union and other places. In 1993, she married Paul Mikhailovich Kogan, and worked for ABC, where she won an Emmy for a story on the 1994 Amtrak Train crash, and at NBC during the next several years.