Judges across the country are in a fight to keep their jobs. Unlike judges appointed to federal courts, many state judges run in elections to either get voted onto the court or keep their seat…
Jess Engebretson is a journalist from Virginia. A former staff producer at BackStory, she has also written and reported for Deutsche Welle, PRI, KQED, and Guernica. In 2009, she was awarded a Watson Fellowship to explore the uses of radio in post-conflict settings around the world; she later spent several years teaching radio in Liberia and South Sudan. Jess currently lives in New York City, where she is pursuing a PhD in English literature at Columbia University.