Asher Emanuel

Asher Emanuel is a Wellington-based lawyer and writer with experience in the criminal justice system, government inquiries, and public law. His writing on justice and policy has appeared in The Spinoff, the New Zealand Herald, and other publications, and he is a former editor of Policy.nz. He began his first book, The Valley, in 2018 and is active in the Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union while working as a civil legal aid lawyer.