Joe Stephens is the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and a veteran investigative reporter for The Washington Post. Stephens joined The Post in 1999 and specializes in in-depth enterprise projects. He has won more than a dozen national honors, including three George Polk Awards. With colleagues, he has written three series that have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, including an examination of the growth of the world's largest environmental organization . Other topics on which he has written extensively include the American presidential race, political corruption, the war against terrorism, Afghan reconstruction, the U.S. federal judiciary and drug experiments conducted on children around the world. He lives in Washington D.C. and suburban New York City.