Lauren Williams

Lauren Williams is a journalist and audio producer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has reported on the intersection of art and politics for WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, and radio programs like All Things Considered and Here & Now. Williams also writes and produces for KUOW and NPR’s noontime show, Soundside. Recently, she wrote about the political history of marriage in the United States for the Signal Award-winning show, White Picket Fence, and produced an audio documentary about Black avant-garde composers for the Peabody Award-winning program, Afropop Worldwide. She got her start in journalism at D Magazine, Bust Magazine, and The Paris Review.

Williams is the winner of the 2025 Matthew Power Award. She is working on a story about art history in the American South.