Reiley was a “Poverty and Inequality” series speaker in March 2021: Sec. Tom Vilsack on American Hunger.

Laura Reiley is the business food reporter for the Washington Post. She was previously a food critic at the Tampa Bay Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Baltimore Sun. She has authored four books in the Moon Handbook series, has cooked professionally, and is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy. In 2017 she was a Pulitzer and James Beard finalist.