Lauren Gilger
Host - The Show | [email protected]Lauren Gilger is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized. She is dedicated to building community through storytelling and believes everyone has a story to tell.
Gilger worked as an investigative producer and reporter for ABC15 News in Phoenix after earning her master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2011, where she was named Outstanding Graduate Student.
She was the recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013 after her work forced one of the world’s largest automakers to recall more than 700,000 SUVs.
Her work has uncovered the systemic separation of immigrant families in the detention system, put pressure on the FDA to review a controversial form of birth control that has injured women worldwide, and exposed the backlog of untested rape kits in the country’s sixth-largest metro area.
In the Valley, Gilger has worked as a contributor for the Phoenix New Times and a clerk at the East Valley Tribune. Nationally, her work has appeared in the Washington Post and on ABC’s Nightline.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Fordham University, studying French, visual arts and American Catholic studies.
Journalism is in Gilger’s blood. She grew up in newsrooms as her mother worked at newspapers across the country.
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It’s a perennial debate: Which is the better food town: Arizona’s biggest metro area and capitol of Phoenix; or Tucson, our smaller, sometimes cooler neighbor to the south? -
Among many bills introduced by Democrats at the Arizona Legislature this session that never got a hearing one would have established a groundwater rights buyback program. -
Every year, Arizona State University Barrett Honors College professor Abby Wheatley brings her class on transnational migration to the Arizona borderlands. -
There are now more than 12,700 kids on the DES waitlist for childcare assistance. And 500 of them were added to the list in the last month alone. -
The Arizona Agenda’s TJ L’Heureux joined The Show to talk more about the open seats and how things are getting complicated for Mayor Lisa Borowsky. -
Let’s meet a deeply religious Democrat: House Minority Leader Oscar De Los Santos. He told The Show his identity as a Christian is fundamentally tied up in his work as a public servant. -
Recipients of the Obama-era DACA program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, are being detained and sometimes deported, despite their status. -
Vaughn Hillyard was a born-and-raised Arizonan who has made a name for himself covering President Donald Trump. Today, he’s the senior White House reporter for MS Now. -
In 2019 Megan Thee Stallion released the viral song “Hot Girl Summer,” and an annual trend was born. Since then, we’ve had “Brat Summer,” “Guava Girl Summer,” “Barbie Summer” — the spinoff list goes on. -
Nearly 11,000 people have been disenrolled from 80 different Native American tribes around the country in the last decade-plus.
