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Hannah Kaufman is a health reporter at the Morning Sentinel, covering public health and access to care in central and western Maine. She is on the first health reporting team at the Maine Trust for Local News. Her reporting has explored infectious diseases, hospital closures, vaccine hesitancy and trans-friendly primary care in rural Maine. She was one of 13 health and science journalists to be selected for the 2026 Health Coverage Fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has taken home several awards from the Maine Press Association. Kaufman received a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kaufman’s Impact Fund project will explore how social and political barriers in Maine have barred transgender people from accessing safe healthcare.