Julia Preston ’69

Julia Preston is a contributing writer at The Marshall Project, a non-profit news organization focusing on criminal justice and immigration. Before joining The Marshall Project in 2017, she worked for 21 years at The New York Times. She was the national correspondent covering immigration from 2006 through 2016, and a foreign correspondent in Mexico from 1995 through 2001, among other assignments. Prior to the Times, she was a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post from 1985 to 1995, covering the United Nations, Brazil, and the wars in Central America.