About Justine
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 writing a forthcoming book on women and mass incarceration, to be published by Ecco/HarperCollins, and working on a forthcoming narrative journalism podcast with Campside Media. 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, New York Magazine, Harper’s, the Guardian, VQR, and the New Republic, among others. Justine is also the host, lead reporter, and co-producer of the investigative podcast Believe Her. Her journalism has won or been a finalist for the Mike Berger Award, the James Aronson Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Silver Gavel Award, the Gracie Award, the iHeart Radio Award, and the Ambie Award for Excellence in Audio. 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, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, New America, the Logan Nonfiction Program, and PEN America.
Photograph by Beth Mickalonis