Meera Santhanam

Meera Santhanam reports on politics, criminal justice, and the Middle East. A University of Chicago alum, she is currently pursuing an MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict at Trinity College Dublin. She is a Gender Equality Reporting Fellow at the Pulitzer Center and was previously a Justice Reporting Fellow. Reporting for this article was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.