Lauryn Higgins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in public health and wellness reporting. She currently serves as a stringer for the New York Times and the Washington Post and works as a freelance journalist and adjunct journalism professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Higgins has been a part of the New York Times team since 2020, initially as a news assistant and later as a stringer. She was part of the teams that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the Coronavirus Tracking Project and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Since 2015, she has contributed to various prestigious publications, including Health.com, Shape, Real Simple, Well + Good, Teen Vogue, Women's Health, SheKnows.com, Flatwater Free Press, and NPR News Nebraska. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post through the Post Talent Network, and she has written special series on COVID-19 for The Voice News.

As an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since January 2019, Higgins has taught courses such as Editing for Digital Media, Multimedia Journalism, Intro to Reporting and Editing, Strategic Writing, and How to be a Freelancer. She has also managed in-depth reporting projects on climate change.

Higgins holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she was a Hitchcock Fellow and National Newspaper Associate Fellow. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management from Mars Hill University, where she was a track and field scholarship athlete and yearbook editor-in-chief.