Hi there. I’m Lauren, a deputy editor at Guardian US, where I lead editorial coverage on race, identity, and inequality across our American newsrooms. My career spans more than a decade, during which I’ve produced stories on the arts, politics, sports, race, and religion.
Selected Works
“The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers”
by Leah Wright Rigueur
“Separating Sports by Sex
Doesn’t Make Sense”
by Maggie Mertens
“Louisiana’s Chemical Plants Are
Thriving Off Slavery”
by Anya Groner
“The Inequality of Summer Leisure”
by Spencer Kornhaber
“How African LGBT Activists Are Risking Their Lives Fighting For Tolerance”
by Linda Villarosa
“Why Boredom Affects Us So Much”
by Saida Grundy
“The Black Religion That’s
Been Maligned for Centuries”
by Nadege Green
“Loving Your Job Is a Capitalist Trap”
by Erin A. Cech
“The Double Standard of the American Riot”
by Kellie Carter Jackson
“How a Polarizing Best Seller
Became Required Reading
for Orthodox Jewish Women”
by Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
“My Family Oversimplified My
Brother’s Adoption Story”
by Carrie McKean
“What College Students Really
Think About Cancel Culture”
by Jennifer Miller
“We’ve Seen New York’s White Flight Before”
by Talmon Joseph Smith
“What Toni Morrison Knew About Trump”
by Syreeta McFadden
“Black America’s Invisible Crisis”
by Lois Beckett
“The Racial Politics of Abortion”
by Dawn Porter
In partnership with the filmmaker Dawn Porter, Essence, and Time, I helped produce this two-part docuseries on how Black women and their families are impacted by laws that restrict abortion access.
The series won a Henry R. Luce award.
Media and Appearances
