For the better part of two decades, Rabia Chaudry’s professional life has been dominated by one thing.
The arrest and imprisonment of her childhood friend Adnan Syed in 2000 set her on a meandering path of courtrooms, investigations, books, true crime podcasts and wrongful conviction campaigns. When Syed’s conviction was overturned this year and he was finally released after serving 23 years — in large part thanks to Chaudry’s tireless work on his case — she found herself at a turning point.
