Pam Fessler

Pam Fessler, author of Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, is an award-winning correspondent with NPR News, where she covers poverty, philanthropy, and voting issues. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Disease has been politicized for centuries to dehumanize and demonize others, and long-stigmatized leprosy has been especially convenient.

Pam Fessler