Originally from Minneapolis, Minn., Louisa Lincoln is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines sustainable funding models for journalism, with a focus on nonprofit news and public media organizations in the United States. Lincoln got involved in the nonprofit news industry as a public engagement and marketing intern at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in 2016. She went on to work in the sponsorship department at NPR in Washington, D.C., and in the development department at PRX (formerly Public Radio International) before starting her doctoral studies. More recently, Lincoln was a 2022 COMPASS Fellow at the American Journalism Project and was a 2021-2022 Lipman Family Prize Fellow. She is affiliated with the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center and serves on the Steering Committee for the Center for Media at Risk. Lincoln graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Journalism and Political Science, and a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies. In 2017, she was awarded the James L. Baughman Senior Achievement Award from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Lincoln also holds a Master of Arts in communication from the University of Pennsylvania.