I’m a journalist — and sometimes a musician — in Austin, Texas. Since 2014, I’ve been a staff writer at The Marshall Project, where I write about the death penalty, prisons, courts, and other topics that circle around the idea of “justice” and how we define it as a society.
While there, I worked on a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, hosted a podcast about police interrogations, and was a fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
My first book, “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” was published in 2021 by Crown. I’m current working on a podcast series, on the same topic, that will come out in 2026, and a book about my family called Arab/Jew, that will be published by Schocken… when I finish it.
