Dan Biddle is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose nationally acclaimed work at The Philadelphia Inquirer won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for outstanding coverage of legal issues. He co-authored Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, a groundbreaking biography about the courageous Black teacher and voting rights activist, and has taught journalism at the University of Pennsylvania and other prestigious universities. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and joined EJI in 2023.