Jennifer Gonnerman

Jennifer Gonnerman speaks to Kristin Kinkel, whose brother, Kip Kinkel, killed their parents and opened fire at Thurston High School, in Oregon—a shooting that presaged the violence in Columbine, Colorado.

At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences, Jennifer Gonnerman writes.

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City, Jennifer Gonnerman writes. How much of that will survive the pandemic?

Jennifer Gonnerman writes about Terence Layne’s driving a New York City bus during a pandemic and an uprising.

Jennifer Gonnerman on a group of volunteers who are helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

Jennifer Gonnerman on the Brooklyn neighborhood of Little Pakistan, and on life for the community’s immigrants under the Donald Trump Administration.

Jennifer Gonnerman on Derrick Hamilton, a wrongfully convicted prisoner who achieved a legal landmark.

Jennifer Gonnerman on Taylonn Murphy, who became an activist in the Grant and Manhattanville Houses in Harlem, after his daughter Chicken was shot.

Jennifer Gonnerman on Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen-ager who was accused of stealing a backpack. He spent more than a thousand days awaiting trial.