Farah Stockman
Stockman in 2009
Born	Farah Nisa Stockman (1974-05-21)May 21, 1974 (age 51) East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.[1]
Alma mater	Harvard University[1]
Years active	1996–present
Known for	Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Farah Nisa Stockman (born May 21, 1974)^[2] is an American journalist who has worked forThe Boston Globe and is currently employed byThe New York Times. In 2016, she was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Commentary.^[3]

Stockman was born in East Lansing, Michigan, to a white father and a black mother who wereMichigan State University professors. She has a sister, Demress.^[3]

Stockman attendedRadcliffe College, graduating in 1996.^[4][5]She was an active member of the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club.^[6]In the summer of 1996, Stockman directed theMission Hill Summer Program with Harvard'sPhillips Brooks House Association.^[7]

Following graduation Stockman served as a school teacher inKenya for two years. Stockman and other teachers set up theJitegemeenon-governmental organization.^[8]While living in Kenya, Stockman began writing forThe New York Times,The Christian Science Monitor, theVoice of America andReuters.During her time in Kenya, Stockman covered the international criminal trials stemming from theRwandan genocide.^[9]

Stockman is reported to have been seeking to interviewMubarik Shah Gillani, an individual who was in hiding, who was also being sought byDaniel Pearl at the time of his death.^[10]Mariane Pearl, Daniel Pearl's wife, wrote that an article Stockman wrote, linking Gillani toRichard Reid, was the inspiration for her husband to seek the interview that led to his capture and death.^[11]

Upon her return to the United States, Stockman started working forThe Boston Globe.She worked in theGlobe's Washington bureau before becoming a member of the paper's editorial board and an editorial columnist.^[12] In 2016, she moved toThe New York Times.

In 2021, Stockman publishedAmerican Made based on her prior reporting forThe New York Times about the Rexnord factory closure.

Stockman was a winner of an award from theJ. W. Saxe Memorial Fund in the 1990s.^[13]Stockman won her award for her work "with homeless children in Machakos, Kenya". Stockman subsequently became one of the fund's directors.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Stockman won theWilliam Brewster Styles Award.^[14] The award was given by theScripps Howard Foundation and accompanied by $10,000.Stockman's award was "for identifying U.S. corporations that were covertly using international relationships and offshore operations to avoid taxes, side-step U.S. laws and deny workers' rights."

In 2014, at the annual meeting of the Association of Opinion Journalists in Mobile, Stockman received The Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing, presented by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the educational arm of theSociety of Professional Journalists. It awards $75,000 each year to an outstanding editorial writer or columnist to help broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. Stockman was writing a study of race relations, especially in Boston, riven by the 1974 court order to bus students to address de facto segregation in the schools.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, Stockman was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Commentary, in recognition of a series of articles examining the effects ofbusing on Boston schools.^[3]

Stockman resides inCambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, Gene Corbin, a Lecturer in Civic Studies at Tufts University and the former Dean for Public Service at Harvard University, and their child.^[3]

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