Farah Stockman

Farah Stockman is a member of the New York Times editorial board. She was a national reporter for the New York Times from 2016 to 2020, covering politics, race and social movements across the country. She spent four years periodically visiting steelworkers at the Rexnord bearing plant in Indiana after their factory moved to Mexico, to find out what happened to them afterward and how the experience of job loss changed them. Prior to joining the New York Times, she worked for 16 years at the Boston Globe as a crime reporter, foreign policy reporter, and columnist. She has written dispatches from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, South Sudan and Guantanamo Bay. She started off her career as a journalist in Kenya, where she moved to work with street children after college. Farah graduated from Harvard University in 1996. She lives in Cambridge but also spends time in Michigan, where she grew up.