Hi! I’m Lauren. I’m a senior reporter/producer at NHPR, the NPR affiliate in New Hampshire. I’m part of NHPR's DOCUMENT team, which is a narrative-driven, long form reporting project.

In short: I make compelling audio stories that (I hope) have a big impact. Most of my stories tend to be about power, and how it is used and abused at every level of society. And my forever goal is to uncover and report these stories, as the New Yorker once said about my work, “with extraordinary sensitivity.”

(If you’ve got an idea for a story like that, I’m all ears! Email me!)

I was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting for my work reporting and hosting The 13th Step, a podcast about sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry. The 13th Step was also honored with a 2024 duPont-Columbia award, a 2024 Ambie for Best Reporting, and was named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Vogue.

I’ve won many other awards, including the RTDNA First Amendment Award, the 2024 Courage in Journalism award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, and I was also recognized by the beloved Third Coast International Audio Festival.

You can read more about my work in two New York Times profiles: This one is about another podcast I co-hosted called Stranglehold, where we examined New Hampshire’s tight grip on the first in the nation primary. This NYT story dug into the retaliation my family, colleagues, sources and I faced for the reporting that became The 13th Step podcast.

Before all that, I proudly kicked off my audio reporting career in Chicago. I received a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and then spent nearly six years as a reporter, producer and fill-in host for WBEZ in Chicago, where I mostly covered politics, especially City Hall.

I was born and raised in New Hampshire, and went to undergrad at Saint Anselm College.