Aarti Shahani was an intern at ProPublica. She was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she graduated in 2011 with a masters degree in public policy. She has contributed to outlets including The Washington Post, NPR, Salon.com, New America Media and ColorLines. Her interests are criminal justice, immigration and social entrepreneurship. As a News21 fellow at Arizona’s Cronkite School of Journalism, she reported on transportation safety. Shahani was born in Casablanca to Indian parents and grew up in Flushing, Queens.
