Lara Mo Lorenz is a freelance journalist based in Berlin, who specializes in audio storytelling. Their work focuses on topics surrounding gender, queerness, and social justice. Lara Mo works as a reporter and editor for Deutschlandfunk Nova and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. They are part of the podcast collective mimimi.kollektiv and have co-produced the podcast "Drag Stories", that won Spotify’s 2020 Sound Up Program. Lara Mo’s background is in Gender Studies and Political Science, with a Master’s Degree from Freie Universität Berlin. Lara Mo will use the fellowship to travel to Texas and explore how the escalating anti-trans-bills by the Republican party affect the lives of trans people and their families.