New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv will deliver a lecture on journalism

Rachel Aviv joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 2013. She has written for the magazine about a range of subjects, including medical ethics, criminal justice, education, and homelessness. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest for a story in 2017 about elderly people stripped of their legal rights and in 2020 for a story about a COVID outbreak in an Arkansas prison. She has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Scripps Howard Award for her reporting about police violence.