Stephanie Russell-Kraft has been hired as Insider’s first legal editor, overseeing its coverage of the legal and professional services industries.
She was most recently a special correspondent for Bloomberg Law and an independent reporter covering the intersections of law, religion, gender, labor & workplace matters.
She has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and U.S. News, among other publications. She has also covered religion, voting rights, and justice issues for Sojourners and was previously a legal reporter for Law360.
She holds a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and a bachelor’s in comparative literature and society from Columbia University.
