About Abbie
Abbie VanSickle is a California-based staff writer for The Marshall Project. She was the lead reporter on a year-long investigation into the injuries caused by police dog bites that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. She was a finalist in 2019 and 2021 for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Tampa Bay Times. She is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law and has lectured at its Graduate School of Journalism. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Henry Luce Scholar in Cambodia, where she worked on behalf of survivors at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
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