Laura Trujillo is a health columnist and reporter at USA TODAY. She has been an editor and reporter at USA TODAY, The (Cincinnati) Enquirer, The Arizona Republic and The (Portland) Oregonian. She is the author of “Stepping Back from the Ledge” about her mother’s suicide which was named one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. She is a 2024 graduate of the CUNY Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership and was a judge for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for memoirs. She was part of the team that was a finalist for a breaking news Pulitzer for coverage of the shooting of Gabby Giffords. In 2019, while freelancing, she won a national headliner award along with two other USA TODAY reporters for a series on suicide. As an editor, Trujillo also helped reporters earn James Beard, Livington and Headliner awards.