As health reporter and coordinating producer for polling for the PBS NewsHour, Laura Santhanam uses narrative and numbers to tell stories. An award-winning journalist, her data-focused work at the NewsHour merged her career as a newspaper reporter at the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Arizona Republic with her work as a media analyst at Pew Research Center. A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, who earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in public policy from American University, Laura, her husband and two children live in Washington, D.C.