Sarah Stillman is an American professor, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine,[1] and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist focusing on immigration policy,[2] the criminal justice system,[3] and the impacts of climate change on workers.
Her investigative reporting has shed light on profiteering in key areas of U.S. life, particularly prisons and jails;[12] immigration detention facilities;[13] disaster recovery programs; and U.S. war zone contracting.
[15] 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.
[17] The rights to a number of her articles in The New Yorker have been sold to Hollywood filmmakers and studios, including her story on confidential informants, which was acquired in 2014 by Paramount Pictures and Oscar-winning writer/producer William Monahan.
[29] Stillman won the 2012 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for her reporting for The New Yorker from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases.
[31][32] Stillman won the 2013 Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York for in-depth reporting on police who seize citizens’ assets without trial in a process called civil forfeiture.