Yanick Rice Lamb is an award-winning journalist, author and journalism professor at Howard University. 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. She is also co-founder of the health website FierceforBlackWomen.com and a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow focusing on the impact of COVID-19. 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. She also wrote “Stuck in the Hospital” through the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Commonwealth Fund. NABJ honored her with a Salute to Excellence Award for “Dealing With Dementia,” which she wrote as a John A. Hartford/MetLife Foundation Journalism in Aging & Health Fellow. Lamb is completing a doctorate in Medical Sociology at Howard University, specializing in environmental health.