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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