Nell Bernstein is the author of All Alone in the World, a Newsweek Book of the Week, Burning Down the House, winner of the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and In Our Future We Are Free (all published by The New Press). She is a former Soros Justice Media Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner of a White House Champion of Change award. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Imprint, Mother Jones, and other publications. She lives in Albany, California.