Rachel Aviv, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, has been a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine since 2013. She often writes about medicine, criminal justice, and education. She was a finalist for the 2018 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for a story about elderly people being stripped of their legal rights. As a fellow, she worked on a book about how psychiatric diagnostic language changes who people are expected to be and how they interact with institutions providing care.
