America’s child care providers, who care for roughly 12 million children under age 5 every day, have been devastated by the coronavirus crisis. Called on simultaneously to serve the children of essential workers and prohibited from serving other children, many centers saw their income plummet. Nearly half of child care facilities were closed in early […]
Author Archives: Lillian Mongeau
Lillian Mongeau is a Senior Editor and the Western Bureau Chief. Her future as a writer was not a foregone conclusion. "I would like to see her put more effort into her writing," Ms. Gill wrote on Lillian's first grade report card. Always one to follow good advice, Lillian has gone on to win several awards for her writing. Most notably, her series on the lack of public preschool in the United States made her a finalist for a 2017 Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Her work for The Hechinger Report has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Before becoming a journalist, Lillian spent two years on the Texas-Mexico border teaching middle school English as a Teach For America corps member. Lillian is an alumna of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College at Columbia University. When she's not reading the news or a novel, she likes to ski, quilt, run and play with her kids.
