Draft:Soumya Karlamangla

Soumya Karlamangla is a Pulitzer Prize-winning health reporter. , she was the lead writer for California Today, a publication of The New York Times.

Raised in Thousand Oaks, California, Karlamangla received degrees in biology and English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

"As a freshman at UC Berkeley, Karlamangla joined the Daily Cal staff in 2010 and went on to cover primarily city news on both the local schools and environment beats, later becoming a city news editor. After graduating in 2013, she joined the L.A. Times staff in September of that year, where she has worked as a public health reporter."

Karlamangla previously "worked for the Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation magazine in D.C., and Thomson Reuters in London."

In April 2016, Karlamangla was one of a group who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting "as part of the Los Angeles Times staff who covered the December San Bernardino, California, shooting and subsequent terrorism investigation". Following the shooting, Karlamangla was assigned to interview "mourning families who had lost parents and siblings in the attack".