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Lauren Spates
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Journalist, Freelance
Santa Rosa
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Biography
Lauren is a freelance journalist recently awarded Investigative Reporters and Editors' (IRE) 2023 Book of the Year for her work as contributing author and editor on "Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm." "Inflamed" also won the National Indie Excellence Award for regional nonfiction and was a finalist in the group's aging and caregiving category. The book was a general nonfiction finalist in the Northern California Book Awards. Lauren has published in The Press Democrat and The Napa Valley Register, on KRCB/NorCal Public Media and through NPR, which syndicated her podcast "Chronic Catastrophe." Her focus is all things Sonoma and Napa County, particularly politics and the environment. Lauren earned her journalism degree from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism and won multiple state writing awards while refreshing her portfolio at Santa Rosa Junior College where she wrote and edited for The Oak Leaf, supported the newsroom's back-end operation and assisted the program's adviser. Lauren lives in west Sonoma County's redwood forest with her husband and their bicycle-loving kiddo. She's a newshound, bookworm, dog lover, Maryland Terrapins fan, knit and crochet enthusiast, and former ACC and NFL cheerleader.
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Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States