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Laura Garcia is the managing editor of the San Antonio Report. Before that, she was afternoon/evening news editor for Texas Tribune. As a health care business reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, she did an ambitious and impactful project on inequitable health care as a Center National Fellow. She also previously worked at the Victoria Advocate, The Roanoke Times in Virginia, Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the Longview News-Journal. She is the president of the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists, a San Antonio-based nonprofit that raises funds for journalism student scholarships and advocates for diversity in newsrooms, and was a 2021 National Fellow at the Center for Health Journalism. A South Texas native, she graduated from San Antonio College and Texas State University with journalism degrees. For her reporting project “Access Denied,” Garcia was awarded first place by the Texas Medical Association in the “in-depth print/online” category this year, and she placed third in the “social justice reporting” category in the 2023 Best of the West Contest by San Antonio Express-News.
