Tamar Lewin
Tamar Lewin was a reporter at The New York Times for more than three decades, mostly on the national desk. During that time, she covered many different beats, including higher education, legal affairs and assisted reproduction, writing a mix of daily news stories and multi-part series – among them, a look at the growing practice of embryo freezing and the wrenching questions it can raise, and a report from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on American universities' sudden race to create overseas branches. Whether the topic is transracial adoption or why women outpace men in education, she is drawn to stories that illustrate how social issues play out at an individual level.
Lewin was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a project on how race is lived in America: her story followed a trio of close friends – one African-American, one white, and one half Hispanic, half Jewish – in suburban New Jersey, as their tight middle-school friendship dissolved along racial lines in high school, buffeted by the social expectations surrounding them.
Prior to joining The Times, she worked at The Bergen Record (NJ) and was the founding Washington bureau chief, and then managing editor, of the National Law Journal. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School.