Lindsey Leake

Lindsey Leake is an independent journalist and former health and wellness reporter on Fortune’s Well team who covered medicine, public health, the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, nutrition, fitness and more before her position was eliminated in late February 2025. Before joining Fortune in 2024, she spent 14 years in print, broadcast and digital journalism at outlets including the USA TODAY Network, WebMD, Sinclair Broadcast Group and WJLA-TV. In 2023, Editor & Publisher Magazine named Lindsey among its 25 Under 35 “next generation of news media professionals.” The National Association of Science Writers recognized her article on the shortage of blood donors of color as a finalist in its 2022 Science in Society Journalism Awards. Lindsey is a two-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists’ South Florida Diversity Award and has received numerous other reporting accolades. Lindsey earned an MA in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University, an MA in Journalism and Digital Storytelling from American University and a BA from Princeton University. Following a five-year stint in Florida, she recently relocated to her native Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.