Lauren N. Williams

Deputy Editor, Race and Equity
The Guardian US

Lauren N. Williams leads editorial coverage on race, identity, and inequality across all teams and desks in the Guardian US newsroom. Her journalism career spans more than a decade, during which she’s produced award-winning features and stories on culture, politics, and race.

Before joining the Guardian US, Williams was a senior editor at The Atlantic. There, she launched a vertical dedicated to the complexity of American identity and commissioned idea-driven pieces on religion, subcultures, the arts, sports, and socio-political movements.

Her career includes time as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, a features editor at Essence, and an editor and writer at Marie Claire and More.

Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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