ProPublica, for urgent reporting by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz

Kavitha Surana joined ProPublica as a national reporter covering access to reproductive health care in 2022. Before that, she reported on housing, law enforcement and health care at the Tampa Bay Times and BuzzFeed News. She was previously a fellow at ProPublica covering immigration. She got her start interning at The Associated Press in Rome and CNN, and as a fellow at Foreign Policy magazine.

Lizzie Presser is a national reporter at ProPublica covering health. Her reporting on complications of diabetes won the National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 2021. Her 2019 story on heirs’ property and the dispossession of Black landowners won a George Polk Award. Before joining ProPublica, she was a contributing writer at California Sunday Magazine.
 

Cassandra Jaramillo joined ProPublica in 2022 and reports on reproductive rights. Prior to ProPublica, she worked at the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and is based in Texas.
 

Stacy Kranitz was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Additional awards include the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography (2017), a Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development grant (2020), a Puffin Foundation grant (2022) and the CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship (2024). She works as an assignment photographer for publications including Time, ProPublica, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and Mother Jones. Her first monograph, “As it Was Give(n) to Me,” was published by Twin Palms in 2022.