Hi! I’m Lauren Nutall, one of The 19th’s reporting fellows and a 2025 Pulitzer Center reporting grant recipient. My Pulitzer project will focus on the school-to-deportation pipeline. Before joining The 19th, I was part of the Ida B. Wells Society’s Investigative Internship Cohort at The Dallas Morning News, where I reported on the devastating Kerr County flooding and Trump protests. I began my journalism career as a high school freshman after writing a project on school budget cuts so severe teachers couldn’t afford printer ink. I went on to intern at Black Enterprise for a year, publishing more than 200 stories on Black entrepreneurship and business. I later worked at the Washington, D.C., bureau of CBS News, contributing to investigations into the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, and into his top campaign donors and voter fraud claims. I recently earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international affairs from Howard University, where I wrote for Howard News Service and was an investigative reporter for The Hilltop, the university’s student newspaper.