Lauren J. Mapp is a Black and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) reporter who has covered Indigenous communities, caregiving, senior care, social justice, art, music, travel, the restaurant industry and culinary traditions since 2005. She is a co-founder of Daylight San Diego, a newsroom aiming to better engage younger news audiences and communities historically misrepresented or ignored by legacy media. Previously, Mapp was a staff reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune, inewsource, Times of San Diego, North Coast Current, Indian Time and The People's Voice. In 2019, she graduated from San Diego State University, where she was recognized as the Outstanding Graduate for the School of Journalism and Media Studies. She is a two-time Age Boom Academy fellow through the Columbia Aging Center & Columbia Journalism School (2021 and 2022), and Living Longer: The New Age for Aging Journalism 2022 fellow through the National Press Foundation. 

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