Sarah Stillman is an American professor and journalist focusing on immigration policy[1] and the criminal justice system.[2] She won a 2012 George Polk Award,[3] and 2012 Hillman Prize.[4] In 2016, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.[5] She won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage of the felony murder charge in The New Yorker.[6]
Sarah Stillman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Education | Georgetown Day School |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Oxford University |
| Notable awards | George Polk Award (2012), Hillman Prize (2012), MacArthur Fellow (2016), Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2024) |
Life
Stillman graduated from Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C.,[7] and graduated from Yale University in 2006.[8] While in college, she founded and edited an interdisciplinary feminist journal, Manifesta,[9] and co-directed the Student Legal Action Movement, a group devoted to reforming the American prison system.[10]
Stillman was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.[11] In 2009, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company.[12]
She teaches at New York University and Yale University.[13] She is also a staff writer for the New Yorker.[14]
Awards
In 2005, Stillman was awarded the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.[9]
Stillman also won the 2012 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases.[15]
She is also the recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for international human-rights reporting, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and the Michael Kelly Award.[16][17]
In 2016, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Stillman a MacArthur fellowship.[18]
In 2024, as a staff writer of The New Yorker, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage of the felony murder charge.[6]
Selected bibliography
- Stillman, Sarah (2000). Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself. Illustrated by Susan Gross. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words.
- — (2001). Soul searching journal : a girl's guide to finding herself. New York: Simon Pulse/Beyond Words.
- — (2012). Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself. Updated ed. Illustrated by Susan Gross. New York: Simon Pulse. ISBN 978-1582703039.
- — (April 8, 2013). "Up in the air". Goings on About Town. Dept. of Hobbyists. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 8. pp. 24, 26. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
References
External links
- An interview with Alex Carp at Guernica magazine
- Official website
- "A Conversation with Sarah Stillman". The New Journal. 13 April 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- "Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War's Latest Victims". Democracy Now. February 20, 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2013.