Stephanie Russell-Kraft is a Brooklyn-based reporter covering the intersections of religion, culture, law and gender. She has written for The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, Religion & Politics, In These Times, and more. She is also a special correspondent for Bloomberg Law. She became a full-time journalist after earning a master’s in cultural anthropology from Humboldt University in Berlin, cutting her teeth as a legal reporter for Law360. Prior to that, she earned a bachelor's in comparative literature and society from Columbia University.