Lauren Lee White is a reporter covering public safety. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, VICE, PRI, the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere, often with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She is a journalism instructor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and has taught investigative reporting at the School of the New York Times.

In 2018, she received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to report on sexual misconduct at the Los Angeles County women’s jail. White was a John Jay College/H.F. Guggenheim reporting fellow at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice in 2016 and a fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy in 2015.

Previously, she worked as a documentary filmmaker in New York City, where she was an instructor with the Tribeca Film Institute, the JFK Center for Performing Arts, and the Downtown Community TV Center.