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Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She wrote the national bestseller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy and has been a frequent guest on the Colbert Report.
Before joining the Times Magazine, Bazelon was a writer and editor for nine years at Slate, where she co-founded the women’s section DoubleX. She continues to co-host the Slate Political Gabfest, a weekly podcast. Bazelon has previously been a Soros media fellow and has worked as an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine and as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. She has appeared on Fresh Air, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, the PBS NewsHour, and Morning Joe. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, This American Life, Vogue, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Bazelon is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.