Esther Kaplan

Esther Kaplan is Business Insider's investigations editor. She has led projects at BI on homicides targeting transgender people, honored with a Scripps Howard Award; the use of attack dogs inside prisons, which garnered the Hillman Prize and a National Magazine Award; the bankruptcy of private prison contractor Corizon, which won a Barlett & Steele medal and upended the Southern District of Texas bankruptcy court; and on illegal evictions, which was named a National Magazine Award finalist. Stories she edited exploring high school sexual abuse and how family courts adopted the pseudo-science of parental alienation resulted in arrests and legal reforms. She has commissioned in-depth reporting from freelancers, including exposés of the rent-to-own industry, the insurance industry, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the role of private equity in the deforestation of the Amazon.