Emily Bazelon: podcast appearances and interviews

Emily Bazelon is an American journalist born on March 4, 1971. She serves as a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and is a senior research fellow at Yale Law School. She has also co-hosted the Slate podcast Political Gabfest. Previously, she was a senior editor at Slate. Her work primarily focuses on law, women, and family issues. Bazelon has authored two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House, titled Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, published in 2013, and Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, published in 2019. The latter book received significant recognition, winning the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Current Interest category and the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. It was also a runner-up for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Bazelon's work as a writer emphasizes issues related to law, gender, and family, contributing thoughtfully to public discourse on these topics.