Cara Tabachnick reports on global crime, trafficking, and human rights issues. Her work touches on all aspects of justice, including policing, migration, prisons, drugs, technology, and violence. She has written for publications such as Marie Claire, "O" Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Washington PostMagazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and Scientific American. She is a news editor at CBS News responsible for editing and writing breaking news and enterprise features. 

Cara is the founding director of Journalism Centre on Global Trafficking, a not-for-profit media resource center and network launched in 2021.  Since its inception the centre has trained journalists in Africa and South Asia on all forms of trafficking. Journalism fellows have produced 40 investigations on trafficking and child labor - and the number is steadily growing. 

Cara began her career as a crime reporter for Newsday, one of New York's largest daily newspapers. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism