Nicholas St. Fleur is a general assignment reporter, associate editorial director of events and host of STAT's health equity podcast, "Color Code." He covers the intersection of race, medicine and the life sciences. Nicholas won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists and was a winner of the 2023 June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism. He came to STAT as a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow in 2020. Prior to joining STAT, he was a freelance science journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area covering archaeology, paleontology, space, and other curiosities of the cosmos. He previously worked for The New York Times and The Atlantic. Nicholas received a B.S. in biology from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
