Lauren Whaley Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Manage and mentor a collaborative team of 20 journalists, software engineers and graphic designers. - Launched and managed local news data product for each of Los Angeles’s 110 diverse neighborhoods.- Manage Facebook Journalism Project-funded local data pilot with three newsrooms: WRAL, NOLA.com, San Francisco Standard.- Conduct ongoing user research in Los Angeles with local stakeholders; communicate insights to teams.- Implement systems for content strategy, onboarding… Show more - Manage and mentor a collaborative team of 20 journalists, software engineers and graphic designers. - Launched and managed local news data product for each of Los Angeles’s 110 diverse neighborhoods.- Manage Facebook Journalism Project-funded local data pilot with three newsrooms: WRAL, NOLA.com, San Francisco Standard.- Conduct ongoing user research in Los Angeles with local stakeholders; communicate insights to teams.- Implement systems for content strategy, onboarding, quality control and learning across teams. Show less

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Edit and manage journalists and designers covering local data stories on crime, traffic and air quality.

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Create an engaged classroom community to help undergraduate students both critically analyze and also produce written and visual journalism in “Navigating Media in the Digital Age” course. - Thesis committee member: "Hate Crime Tracker: How to Make Local News Relevant and Visually Engaging" by Hannu Kivimaki, candidate for Masters of Arts in journalism.

- “A Mother’s Cheeks” essay published in Motherload: A Pandemic Experience. Self published, June 2022.- Interview, original photograph published in Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance. MIT Press 2023.

United States

- Report and edit stories on health care disparities, maternal mental health and other health care topics for radio stations, newspapers, foundations. Clients include: California Health Care Foundation, Center for Health Journalism, Undark Magazine, Sojourners Magazine, Public Radio Exchange (PRX). - Professional photographer for childbirth, family portraits, schools, small businesses.

- Selected as one of eight US journalists to produce a year-long project on mental illness as part of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism.- Produced series on maternal mood disorders and access to care. - Selected to present work to 150 donors at The Carter Center.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

- Selected as one of 10 journalists worldwide- Researched reproductive health, racism in health care, biotechnology.

Los Angeles, Ca

- Reported award-winning, in-depth health care policy stories in print, radio, photography and video.- Covered health disparities, the Affordable Care Act, mental illness and public health issues impacting children and families.- Work appeared on KQED Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles News Group, Orange County Register and other media outlets around California.- Finalist. “Mental Breakdown: State county cuts devastate mentally ill.”… Show more - Reported award-winning, in-depth health care policy stories in print, radio, photography and video.- Covered health disparities, the Affordable Care Act, mental illness and public health issues impacting children and families.- Work appeared on KQED Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles News Group, Orange County Register and other media outlets around California.- Finalist. “Mental Breakdown: State county cuts devastate mentally ill.” Scripps Howard Awards, 2012.- Second Place, Policy. “Mental Breakdown: State, county cuts devastate mentally ill.” Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, 2012.- Honorable Mention. “Home Alone: Adult Health Center Cuts Devastate Elderly, Disabled.” AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. 2011.- Honorable Mention. “A Desperate Scramble: Medicare Limits Drugs that Kidney Patients Need.”AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. 2011. Show less

Usa

Led national 800-member group that supports the professional empowerment of women in journalism. Duties: Non-profit management, staff and board supervision, fundraising, annual conference planning.Accomplishments: Founded equity committee; implemented new membership database; overhauled financial system; grew membership; expanded fellowship program to include three new scholarships; expanded mentorship program; overhauled website.

- President-elect (2013)- Communications chair (2012)- Membership chair (2011)

Jackson, Wyoming

- Managed written, photographic and video contributions to daily blog (TheMountainCulture.com) for outdoor clothing company.

Wrote a bi-weekly column called “Excursion,” detailing local adventures.

Reporter for regional weekly and daily newspapers; covered police, education and land use in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

- Leader of wilderness expeditions for young women ages 12-18.- Solo led 45-day Arctic canoe expedition for five teenagers down the Back River in Nunavut, Canada.

Master'S Degree, Science Journalism

• Outstanding Graduate Student Award. • Merit Scholarship for Science & Technology.

Ba, English, Environmental Studies, Biology

• Hawthorne Award for Best Short Story. • Environmental Studies Award.

Certificate, Tanzania: Conservation Ecology And Wildlife Biology

Four month study abroad program based in Arusha, Tanzania; Solo research project on avian diversity in Amani Nature Preserve.