As a media fellow for the Open Society Institute, Stephen wrote a series of articles about wrongful convictions that garnered national attention. A graduate of LIU Brooklyn, Stephen received the Theodore Kruglak Award in International Reporting to work in India for CNN and The Times of India. Stephen has also worked in network television, including CNN in Atlanta and ABC News in New York. For WNBC-TV, he was a field producer. Since 2006, Stephen has served on a panel of judges for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy Awards.