Lauran Neergaard is a medical writer for The Associated Press. She joined the AP in Atlanta in 1989, and has covered health since 1992. Based in Washington since 1993, she currently covers public ...

Author of memoir titled Living With Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive, a book about my life with the heriditary blood disorder. I want to commend U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G.

Lauren Caruba is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News, where she focuses on long-term projects and accountability reporting. Previously, she was a staff ...

Mike Finch is a data reporter at the Sacramento Bee.

Doctoring is about service. It's about getting out of bed at 3 in the morning so someone survives to morning. That was the indelible lesson of a house call joined when I was six years old. A man was ...

I report on housing and homelessness for CalMatters. My stories focus on the political dynamics and economic and racial inequities that have contributed to the housing crisis in California and its ...

I am a freelance opinion writer and my lived experience of being incarcerated informs my work. I was the first incarcerated person to have a regular byline in a publication outside the prison. That ...

Jacqueline Garcia is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist with more than a dozen years of experience covering issues ranging from immigration and politics to health and education. A vast majority ...

Aura Bogado is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal. Her impact-driven work covers immigration, with a focus on migrant children in federal custody. She's earned a Murrow Award, a Hillman Prize, ...

Rebecca Lindstrom is the chief investigative reporter for 11Alive, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, and a 2023 Senior Fellow for the Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship. For nearly three ...