Laura Sullivan

Laura Sullivan
Laura Sullivan at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards
Born	1974 (age 42–43) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Investigative reporter, correspondent
Years active	1996–present

Laura Sullivan (born about 1974) is a correspondent and investigative reporter for National Public Radio (NPR). She covers crime, punishment and prisons for Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and other NPR programs. Sullivan's work specializes in shedding light on some of the country's most disadvantaged people. She is one of NPR's most decorated journalists, with three Peabody Awards two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, and more than a dozen other prestigious national awards.

Sullivan graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, California, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 1996, Sullivan and two fellow university seniors expanded a class assignment that ultimately freed four men (Ford Heights Four) who had been wrongfully convicted of a 1978 murder in Chicago's South Side; two were death-row inmates. The case was one of several that led to a moratorium on capital punishment in Illinois. The project won a special citation from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Before coming to NPR in 2004, Sullivan covered the United States Department of Justice, the FBI, and terrorism from the Baltimore Sun's Washington, D.C. bureau.