Justine van der Leun

Justine van der Leun is an independent journalist, an author, and a fellow at Type Media Center. Her features have been published in the Appeal, the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the Guardian, GEN Magazine, VQR, Dissent, and the New Republic, among others. Her most recent book is We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation (Random House/Spiegel & Grau, 2016). Justine is the recipient of reporting grants from the Pulitzer Center, Type Investigations, and the International Women’s Media Foundation. She has been awarded fellowships by PEN America’s Writing for Justice program and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.