Before joining The 19th, Lauren Nutall was part of the Ida B. Wells Society’s Investigative Internship Cohort at The Dallas Morning News, where she reported on the devastating Kerr County flooding and Trump protests. She began her journalism career as a high school freshman after writing a project on school budget cuts so severe teachers couldn’t afford printer ink. She went on to intern at Black Enterprise for a year, publishing more than 200 stories on Black entrepreneurship and business. She 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.