Emily Bazelon

Emily Bazelon is the author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, to be published by Random House in April 2019. Her previous book is the national bestseller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. She is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, and a co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. Emily was a writer and editor for nine years at Slate, where she co-founded the women’s section DoubleX. She has previously been a Soros media fellow and has worked as an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine and as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. She was a regular guest on the Colbert Report and has also appeared on The Today Show, The PBS Newshour, Morning Joe, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition. Emily is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.