Laura Fay

award-winning journalist & digital strategist

About me

I’m a journalist with experience covering K-12 education and local news as well as building audiences with social media, newsletters, virtual events and more. I also love to read and to run.

Writing

A Rural Teacher Challenges Students and Her Community to Wrestle With the World

Cicadas During COVID — A ‘Golden Moment’ For Classroom Engagement At the End of an Isolating School Year

‘She Made Me Feel Like I Wasn’t Entirely Alone’: 10 Students and Families Pay Tribute to the Teachers Who Helped Them Endure the Pandemic

‘This Is the Reality I Go Home To’: Students at Virtual Town Hall Urge Educators to Talk About Race and Racism. Here Are Some Starting Points for Teachers

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Audience engagement and more

Social video: Visitors in awe of Big Boy steam engine in Philly; Philadelphia names baby tortoises for the Golden Girls (each of these got more than 1.5 million views across platforms)

Podcast: Interviewed running pioneer Diane Hawkins for Starting Line 1928

Events: Moderated a virtual youth town hall for The 74 and America’s Promise Alliance 

Newsletters: Curated/edited weekly COVID-19 policy roundup from contributor John Bailey (the full archive is available here on the74million.org)

Design and production

D.C.’s Missing Students and the Rush to Avert a COVID Classroom Crisis

With Up to 9 Grade Levels Per Class, Can Schools Handle the Fallout From COVID’s K-Shaped Recession?