Cristian Farias is a senior editor of Inquest, published by Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, where he was formerly a senior fellow. He has written about law and justice issues for The New York Times’ editorial board, as well as for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Atlantic, Slate, The New Yorker, The Nation, and other outlets. In related roles, he has served as a legal editor with Radiolab’s More Perfect, a podcast about the Supreme Court, and as a legal affairs reporter for The Huffington Post. He has also completed two writing residencies—at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In a prior life, Farias was an entertainment journalist. In 2009, in a professional twist, he became a probation officer with the New Jersey court system. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the City University of New York School of Law.