The Seattle Times

 Series of stories about insurance issues facing Washingtonians seeking mental health care to explain the scope of the issue, provide readers with resources to seek redress and identify opportunities for improvement within the system, with a specific focus on the lack of coverage by insurance companies for mental health needs, the systemic barriers put up by major insurance carriers that often prevent or delay people from getting care.

 independent journalist

Series on how states are using 1115 waivers to bring Medicaid coverage to incarcerated people and documenting the ways that these waivers can provide oversight to correctional healthcare systems and improve outcomes.

Black Iowa News

Series on Black maternal health disparities in Iowa, statewide efforts to address Black maternal health, through the use of efforts such as a community-based Doula Project for African American Families, and policy, legislative and cultural changes needed to reduce maternal inequities in Iowa. 

Independent journalist

Series on the intersections of racism and sexism in COVID long haulers of color, and the federal government and health system responses; series will include experiences of several advocacy leaders of different backgrounds with long COVID, the high rate of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application denials, community support of long haulers, and women with long COVID struggling to raise children while severely ill, and the potential effect both maternal and child mental health.

Independent journalist

Series on maternity deserts across the U.S., especially in light of the Dobbs decision, and how the closures of rural hospitals result in the growing distance many Americans must now travel to give birth – or seek prenatal or postpartum care, through the lens of three facilities in the West, Southwest, and Midwest.cription goes here

IL Latino News

A series on period poverty and the Chicago public school system, how they are or are not implementing local law that mandates free menstrual products in all public school bathrooms, how menstruation is taught in the Illinois school systems, how higher education is helping the cause, and a push for accountability in implementing these programs.