Lauren Camera is a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report. She joined the News team as an education reporter in 2015. She’s covered education policy and politics for more than a decade, during which she's dug into the education agendas of the last three administrations, provided expert analysis of federal and state legislation, produced data projects on important topics like Title I funding for poor students and focused on issues of inequality in the early education, K-12 and higher education spaces. Camera has also written for Education Week, The Hechinger Report, Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She was a 2013 Spencer Education Fellow at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, where she conducted a reporting project about the impact of the Obama administration’s competitive education grant, Race to the Top. She's a frequent guest on C-SPAN, has appeared on PBS “NewsHour,” SiriusXM's POTUS channel and others, and has presented her reporting to audiences at SXSW EDU. Camera earned her bachelor's degree from Colby College in Maine, and her master's degree in journalism from Boston University. Follow her on Twitter, connect with her on LinkedIn or email her at lcamera@usnews.com.