For the past decade, Cara Tabachnick has been reporting and writing about crime, trafficking and human rights issues in the U.S. and abroad. Her work touches on all aspects of justice, including policing, migration, prisons, drugs, technology and violence. She has written for publications such as Marie Claire, "O" Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Washington Post Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and Scientific American.

In addition to writing and reporting, Cara works in global media capacity development training journalists around the world. Currently she is the Senior Associate, Media Programs at Population Reference Bureau, where she trains female reporters in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Francophone Africa on public health issues, including trafficking, gender-based violence and exploitation.

From 2008-2015 she was the Deputy Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. While there, she also served as the Managing Editor of the daily news service, The Crime Report.

Cara began her career as a crime reporter for Newsday, one of New York's largest daily newspapers. She has written two books: a true-crime series for Harper Collins UK and for Ulysses Press, a non-fiction book about survivor stories from around the globe.

She is a graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism and splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and southern Spain. In her free time, Cara likes to run, hike read, paint, and make textile art.