Laura Kraegel was the Roy W. Howard Investigative Fellow at WBUR.

Originally from Illinois, Laura Kraegel earned her master’s degree in investigative journalism in 2021 from Arizona State University, where she worked as a reporter at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

She previously spent about five years covering local news for KUCB and KNOM in Unalaska and Nome, Alaska. She earned her bachelor’s degree in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.