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Lauryn Higgins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist whose work focuses primarily on public health and wellness. A native of North Carolina,  she earned her master's degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and now resides in Bentonville, Arkansas. She currently works as a freelance journalist, professor of journalism and as a Midwest stringer for the New York Times. She has worked for the New York Times, NPR, Women's Health, Shape, Time, Parents, Flow Space, Health.com, Teen Vogue and other outlets. 

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Her work tracking the Covid-19 pandemic at the New York Times was part of a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, as well as the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism award and a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award. 

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And her work tracking the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the New York Times was part of a team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.

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She is the 2023 Mars Hill University alumna of the year. 

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