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Orion Rummler

LGBTQ+ Reporter (they/them)

I’m Orion Rummler, and I cover how LGBTQ+ people navigate the American health care system.  From gender-affirming care and HIV/AIDS prevention to Medicaid and family planning, my beat is focused on the everyday health needs of LGBTQ+ people — and how politics are shaping those needs. 

My reporting has won an Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage Award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists and a Murrow Award, as part of a team project on pregnancy in post-Roe America. I have also been nominated three times for GLAAD’s Outstanding Online Journalism Award. 

I have spoken at the Reva & David Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley, the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ data journalism conference, and the Association of Health Care Journalists conference. I often join classrooms to discuss my work. I have also served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize.

My work has appeared in CBS News, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and PBS NewsHour, among other outlets. I have reported from the White House, the State Department, the Education Department, the Supreme Court, Capitol Hill and at home with my cats.

My work is free to consume and free to republish because of contributions from readers like you. A donation of $19 goes a long way toward sustaining our nonprofit newsroom.

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