Yanick Rice Lamb is co-winner of the National Press Foundation’s Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing.

She is an award-winning journalist, author and journalism professor at Howard University, where she is completing a doctorate in Medical Sociology specializing in health equity and environmental issues.

She is also co-founder of the health website FierceforBlackWomen.com. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of BET Weekend and Heart & Soul magazines, and an editor at The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Child and Essence.

The Center for Public Integrity and Belt Magazine are publishing her series on the environmental health impact of the rubber industry through the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Lamb is also a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, focusing on the impact of COVID-19.