Shoshana Walter is the award-winning author of Rehab: An American Scandal, and an investigative reporter for the Marshall Project, where she covers the healthcare, criminal justice and child welfare systems. Her reporting has been recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Goldsmith Award and Selden Ring, and has won the IRE medal, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the Knight Award for Public Service, and two Edward R. Murrow awards, among others.
She was the lead reporter-producer on the popular investigative podcast American Rehab and has investigated everything from erroneous hospital drug testing, to armed guards who kill with impunity, to sexual exploitation in the marijuana industry. Her reporting has prompted criminal and congressional probes and new laws, and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, on NPR, on CNN and in newspapers across the country.
She was previously a senior reporter and producer at The Center for Investigative Reporting and got her start at The Ledger, in Lakeland, Florida. She lives with her family in Oakland, California.
