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Natalie Eilbert is the mental health reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She began her career as a local government watchdog reporter with Green Bay Press-Gazette, where she won first prize in investigative reporting from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. She was named the recipient of NAMI Wisconsin's 2024 Iris Award for her coverage of mental health. She has published three books of poetry and was a 2021 poetry fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and has received numerous awards for her poetry. She graduated with a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied health, environmental and science reporting. She also has a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University.