Christina Caron is the winner of the 2021 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting. She is a reporter for the Well section at The New York Times, covering mental health and the intersection of culture and health care. Previously, she was a parenting reporter, general assignment reporter and copy editor at The Times. She also spent a decade working in broadcast news, primarily as an online editor, and has worked as a clinical research coordinator at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Ms. Caron attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and earned a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.