Emily Bazelon

Emily Bazelon

Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, and a lecturer at Yale Law School. She is the author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration. Her previous book is the national bestseller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. She’s also a co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. Before joining the Times Magazine, Bazelon was a writer and editor at  Slate, where she co-founded the women’s section  “DoubleX.” She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.