Farah Nisa Stockman (born May 21, 1974) is an American journalist who has worked for ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...

'' and is currently employed by ''

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''. In 2016, she was awarded the

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Early life

Stockman was born in East Lansing, Michigan, to a white father and a black mother who were

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

professors. She has a sister, Demress.

Education

Stockman attended

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard Colle ...

, graduating in 1996. She was an active member of the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club. In the summer of 1996, Stockman directed the Mission Hill Summer Program with Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association.

Kenya, 1997–2000

Following graduation Stockman served as a school teacher in

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

for two years. Stockman and other teachers set up the Jitegemee

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...

. While living in Kenya, Stockman began writing for ''

'', ''

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'', the ''

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'' and ''

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''. During her time in Kenya, Stockman covered the international criminal trials stemming from the

Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre ...

Attempts to interview Mubarik Shah Gillani

Stockman is reported to have been seeking to interview Mubarik Shah Gillani, an individual who was in hiding, who was also being sought by

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at the time of his death. Mariane Pearl, Daniel Pearl's wife, wrote that an article Stockman wrote, linking Gillani to

Richard Reid Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the "Shoe Bomber", is a British terrorist who perpetrated the failed shoe bombing attempt against a transatlantic flight in 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid convert ...

, was the inspiration for her husband to seek the interview that led to his capture and death.

''The Boston Globe''

Upon her return to the United States, Stockman started working for ''

''. She worked in the ''Globe''s Washington bureau before becoming a member of the paper's editorial board and an editorial columnist. In 2016, she moved to ''

''.

Other writing

In 2021, Stockman published '' American Made'' based on her prior reporting for ''The New York Times'' about the Rexnord factory closure.

Awards

Stockman was a winner of an award from the J. W. Saxe Memorial Fund in the 1990s. Stockman won her award for her work "with homeless children in Machakos, Kenya". Stockman subsequently became one of the fund's directors. In 2009, Stockman won the William Brewster Styles Award. The award was given by the Scripps Howard Foundation and accompanied by $10,000. Stockman's award was "for identifying U.S. corporations that were covertly using international relationships and offshore operations to avoid taxes, side-step U.S. laws and deny workers' rights." In 2014, at the annual meeting of the Association of Opinion Journalists in Mobile, Stockman received The Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing, presented by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the educational arm of the

Society of Professional Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University,2009 SPJ Annual Report, lette ...

. It awards $75,000 each year to an outstanding editorial writer or columnist to help broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. Stockman was writing a study of race relations, especially in Boston, riven by the 1974 court order to bus students to address de facto segregation in the schools. In 2016, Stockman was awarded the

, in recognition of a series of articles examining the effects of

busing Desegregation busing (also known as integrated busing, forced busing, or simply busing) was an attempt to diversify the racial make-up of schools in the United States by transporting students to more distant schools with less diverse student pop ...

on Boston schools.

Personal life

Stockman resides in

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, with her husband, Gene Corbin, a Lecturer in Civic Studies at Tufts University and the former Dean for Public Service at Harvard University, and their child.

References

External links

Twitter account
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