Sarah Stillman

Sarah Stillman received B.A. and M.A. degrees (2006) from Yale University. She was named a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2013; she is also the director of the Global Migration Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has taught nonfiction writing at Yale and New York University. In addition to her articles and essays in The New Yorker, her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, and the New Republic. Sarah Stillman is a long-form journalist providing new and compelling perspectives on social injustices in stories of people usually invisible to mainstream reporting. Stillman has written on a wide range of topics both in the United States and abroad, including the use and abuse of civil asset forfeiture, the perils faced by young police informants, and the kidnapping of undocumented children at the U.S.-Mexico border.