Lori Teresa Yearwood
Formerly an enterprise reporter for The Miami Herald, Lori Teresa Yearwood is now a trauma-aware journalist focusing on housing inequality across America. Her column, "How Are You Coping With That?" appears monthly in Defector. Additionally, Ms. Yearwood's work has been recently featured in The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications. In 2022, she received a Poynter Institute fellowship at Yale University. Having collapsed and emerged from homelessness herself, Ms. Yearwood is working with a literary agent on her memoir.
Evictions Are Back. Black Renters Are Suffering the Most—Again.
Co-published with The New Republic. In Indianapolis, like many American cities, the long shadow of segregation continues to punish Black neighborhoods—to the disproportionate benefit of white landlords.
Finding The Connection Between Trauma And Chronic Homelessness
Co-published with Defector. Greg Turner instinctively answers my question about when his homelessness started, with the earliest memory that he can claim about his life.
I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex
Co-published with Mother Jones. But I am determined to become something other than your project.
The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54,000
Co-published with The New York Times. Debt is a hidden burden for Americans experiencing homelessness.
Facing Trauma When Your Parent Is Homeless
Co-published with Defector. On the anniversary of her mother’s passing, Autumn Stenberg shares how she continues to cope with “the weight of the responsibility of my mom having …
A Widow Prepares To Start Living In Her Van
Co-published with Defector. Violette knows she is not alone in her housing insecurity, and wants to give hope to others that adaptability is possible.
A Port-a-Potty Job Helped Her Escape Homelessness. Now She Watches Others Struggle.
Co-published with The Washington Post. Dawn Woudenberg witnesses the pain on Salt Lake City’s streets working across from the homeless shelter where she used to sleep.
Can Lawyers and Traumatized Clients Learn to Trust Each Other?
Co-published with Slate. Teaching the legal profession to understand the effects of trauma.
How Did You Sleep Last Night? Darin Mann, Salt Lake City.
Co-published with Slate. In January 2019, approximately 2,800 people were experiencing homelessness on any given day in Utah. But that was before the pandemic, in which millions of …
For Years, I’ve Tried To Work My Way Back Into the Middle Class
Co-published with MIT Technology Review. What I’ve learned: self-acceptance is the first difficult step.
Asking People One at a Time: How Did You Sleep Last Night?
Co-published with Slate. Priscilla Purvis is one of tens of millions of Americans who are struggling with financial insecurity and sleeplessness during the pandemic.
Out of Money and Exhausted
Co-published with The American Prospect. A vicious cycle of sleeplessness and financial deprivation persists in low-income communities during the pandemic.