Eda Uzunlar

Eda Uzunlar is a journalist and illustrator. She's from South Dakota, a first-generation Turkish-American, student at Yale University, and huge advocate for customized Spotify covers. Previously/presently she has worked with Wyoming Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, NPR, and Reveal.

edas.uzunlar@gmail.com

The road on the mural diverges and Danny and Marie are walking and driving down different paths. Narration: Suddenly, their lives began to look drastically different.

Accountability

Since when is being a teenager a crime?

by Eda Uzunlar August 7, 2021August 7, 2021

A comic explores two diverging paths of juvenile justice in Wyoming and South Dakota.

A collage illustration shows lady justice holding up scales in front of a Wyoming wilderness background. A teenager falls off the scales.

Accountability

Juvenile (in)justice

by Tennessee Watson, Eda Uzunlar, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Steven Rascón, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson August 7, 2021August 10, 2021

Wyoming locks up kids at one of the highest rates in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.

Criminal Justice

Juvenile (in)justice

by Tennessee Watson, Eda Uzunlar, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson March 20, 2021July 1, 2021

Wyoming locks up kids at the highest rate in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.

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