Justine van der Leun is an independent journalist, an Emerson fellow at the New America Foundation, and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. She is the host, lead reporter, and co-producer of the investigative podcast Believe Her. She is also writing Unreasonable Women: Survival, Punishment, and Mass Incarceration in America, to be published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. Justine’s prior books include, most recently, We Are Not Such Things, and her features have been published in the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the Guardian, VQR, and the New Republic, among others. Her journalism has won or been a finalist for the Mike Berger Award, the James Aronson Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Silver Gavel Award. Justine has received grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Type Investigations, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, as well as fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, The Justice Collaborative, and PEN America.
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