Soumya Karlamangla is a reporter at The New York Times and is based in Los Angeles. She writes about people, places and goings-on in California.
Before joining The New York Times in 2021, Soumya worked at the Los Angeles Times for eight years. There, she mostly covered public health, writing on everything from the cross-country travels of California abortion providers to deadly safety lapses at psychiatric hospitals. She also led the paper’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, which earned her a spot as a Livingston Award finalist.
Soumya graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in biology and English literature (and a dream of finding a job that would unite those interests). Her non-work hours are spent making homemade ice cream, biking, embroidering, reading fiction and entertaining her rescue kitten.