Education
Stillman was raised in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Georgetown Day School, before attending Yale University. [1] [6] [7] While in college, she founded and edited an interdisciplinary feminist journal, Manifesta, and co-directed the Student Legal Action Movement, a group devoted to reforming the American prison system. [8] [9] At Yale, Stillman taught poetry and writing at to inmates at the men's maximum-security prison in Cheshire, CT. [10] As a senior, she won the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics. [9] She graduated from Yale summa cum laude in 2006 with bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology. [11]
After graduating from Yale, Stillman attended Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship, where she received her DPhil in anthropology. [12] [11]
She was a visiting scholar at New York University and has taught at Columbia University [13] and at Yale University. [14] She is also a staff writer for TheNew Yorker. [15]
Career
In 2008, Stillman traveled to Iraq as a journalist where she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company. [16] [17] She joined The New Yorker in 2012. That same year, she won a National Magazine Award in 2012 for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases and a 2012 George Polk Award for her reporting on the high-risk use of young people as confidential informants in the war on drugs. [18] [19] [20] Since joining The New Yorker, her investigative reporting has shed light on profiteering in key areas of U.S. life, particularly prisons and jails; [21] immigration detention facilities; [22] disaster recovery programs; and U.S. war zone contracting. [23] She has written in-depth stories on the return of debtors’ prisons, the police use and abuse of civil asset forfeiture, family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, and more. [10]
In 2016, while still at The New Yorker, Stillman became founding director of the Global Migration Project at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught a course on “Gender and Migration” and mentored post-graduate fellows on a range of refugee-related reporting projects. [24] She eventually left the project in 2020.
In 2019, Stillman won another National Magazine Award for her article in The New Yorker on deportation as a death sentence. [25] She won a second Polk Award in 2021 for coverage of migrant workers and climate change. [26] The following year, she reported and voiced “The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis” for WNYC Studios, which won the national Edward R. Murrow Award for best radio news documentary. [27] In 2024, Stillman won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage in The New Yorker about troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S. [28]
She runs the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, a collaborative public-interest journalism project that seeks to deepen coverage of criminal justice, climate change, migration, and mental health. [29] Stillman also teaches narrative non-fiction at Yale University's English Department. [10]
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