Molly O'Toole

Molly O'Toole is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, working on "The Route," a nonfiction book on global migration through the Americas, for Crown Publishing, a Penguin Random House imprint (2025). She most recently was an immigration and security reporter for The Los Angeles Times, as well as a fellow at George Washington University and Cornell University. From Latin America to South Asia, O’Toole has written for outlets such as Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Associated Press. She was awarded the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting in 2020 with This American Life. Her work has also been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, Livingston Awards and the National Press Club, among others. She lives in Washington, D.C. but will always be a Californian.