Emily Bazelon

Notable work and positions

The New York Times Magazine - Staff Writer
Yale Law School - Senior Research Scholar in Law; Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law
Slate - Co-host, Political Gabfest; former Senior Editor

Biography

Emily Bazelon is an American journalist and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a senior research scholar in law and Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School, and co-host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast. Born March 4, 1971, she graduated from Yale College in 1993, where she was managing editor of The New Journal, held a Dorot Fellowship in Israel from 1993 to 1994, and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, then worked as a senior editor at Legal Affairs magazine before joining Slate, where she spent nine years as a senior editor and co-founded its women's section, DoubleX. In 2004 she was named a Soros Justice Media Fellow by Open Society Foundations. Her journalism focuses on law, women and family issues, including voting rights, criminal justice and reproductive rights. She is the author of two national bestsellers: Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy (2013) and Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (2019), which won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Current Interest category and the 2020 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Career highlights

• Charged Random House, 2019 · Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award; finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award.
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2019 · Elected as a member.