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Sarah Stillman | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Education | Georgetown Day School |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Oxford University |
| Notable awards | George Polk Award, Hillman Prize, MacArthur Fellow |
Sarah Stillman is an American professor and journalist focusing on immigration policy[1] and the criminal justice system.[2] She won a 2012 George Polk Award,[3] and 2012 Hillman Prize.[4] In 2016, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.[5]
Stillman graduated from Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C.,[6] and graduated from Yale University in 2006.[7] While in college, she founded and edited an interdisciplinary feminist journal, Manifesta,[8] and co-directed the Student Legal Action Movement, a group devoted to reforming the American prison system.[9]
Stillman was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.[10] In 2009, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company.[11]
She teaches at New York University and Yale University.[12] She is also a staff writer for the New Yorker.[13]
In 2005, Stillman was awarded the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.[8]
Stillman also won the 2012 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases.[14]
She is also the recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for international human-rights reporting, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and the Michael Kelly Award.[15][16]
In 2016, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Stillman a MacArthur fellowship.[17]
