Emily Bazelon | |
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![]() Bazelon recording the Slate Political Gabfest in 2009 | |
Born | March 4, 1971 |
Education | Yale University (BA, JD) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable credit(s) | Slate The New York Times Magazine |
Spouse | Paul Sabin |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Lara Bazelon (sister) David L. Bazelon (grandfather) |
Emily Bazelon (born March 4, 1971) is an American journalist. She is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a senior research fellow at Yale Law School, and co-host of the Slate podcast Political Gabfest. She is a former senior editor of Slate. Her work as a writer focuses on law, women, and family issues. She has written two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House: Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy (2013) and Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (2019).[1][2] Charged won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Current Interest category, and the 2020 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.[3][4] It was also the runner up for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation, and a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism from the New York Public Library.[5][6]
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