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Author Archives: Rachel Crumpler

Rachel Crumpler is our Report for America corps member who covers gender health and prison health. She graduated in 2022 from UNC-Chapel Hill with a major in journalism and minors in history and social & economic justice. She has worked at The Triangle Business Journal and her college newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel.

She was named a 2020-21 Hearst investigative reporting award winner for her data-driven story spotlighting funding cuts at local health departments across North Carolina and the impact it had on Covid responses. Her work has appeared in The News & Observer, WRAL, Greensboro News & Record, NC Policy Watch and other publications.

Reach her at rcrumpler at northcarolinahealthnews.org

A colorful, child-friendly mural inside a North Carolina prison showing the seasons and cartoon characters
Posted inPrison Health

13 NC prisons working to make visitation spaces more child-friendly

by Rachel Crumpler September 21, 2023September 20, 2023

By Rachel Crumpler When a child goes to visit an incarcerated parent, they have to navigate a complex maze. They’re shepherded past barbed wire fences and through locked doors. They watch their caregivers get patted down. They often walk down drab halls to sit in drab rooms with a parent who’s wearing a jumpsuit.  It […]

shows solitary confinement cell: a bed and a toilet in a barren room
Posted inPrison Health

People who spent time in solitary confinement say it had lasting effects on their mental, physical health

by Rachel Crumpler September 14, 2023September 13, 2023
shows a hand displaying a silver card with a month's worth of pills in a blister pack. Three rows of the oral contraceptive pills are white, one row is light orange.
Posted inGender health

NC pharmacists emerge as new prescribers of hormonal contraceptives

by Rachel Crumpler August 23, 2023August 22, 2023
Shows two images side by side, one side has people holding up signs in support of transgender youth, the other side holds up signs encouraging veto overrides.
Posted inGender health

Transgender youth face more restrictions after lawmakers override three of Cooper’s vetoes

by Rachel Crumpler August 17, 2023August 17, 2023
a gay man in a suit holds up his arm wrapped up in red tap in celebration after donating blood
Posted inGender health

More gay and bisexual men can donate blood as donor eligibility policy catches up to science

by Rachel Crumpler August 8, 2023August 8, 2023
five certified nurse midwives pose for a photo outside the legislative building in Raleigh
Posted inGender health

With increasing limits on abortion access, NC nurses step into reproductive rights advocacy

by Rachel Crumpler August 4, 2023August 10, 2023

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