Mia Armstrong-López is a managing editor at ASU Media Enterprise, where she's focused on ambitious projects related to health. She's the founding co-editor of Doing Well, a news outlet that helps people understand and improve their health. Mia is also a member of the ASU in Mexico team, where she specializes in expanding binational ideas journalism through events, workshops, and publishing partnerships. She manages a team of student workers and takes pride in involving students in every part of her work at ASU.
She formerly served as the managing editor of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University examining emerging technologies, public policy, and society. She also formerly worked as an editor for State of Mind, a partnership of Slate and ASU focused on expanding mental health coverage. She edited the What Next: TBD and Future Tense Fiction podcasts.
Prior to that, Mia served as senior coordinator of ASU's Convergence Lab, an events and ideas journalism series that connects the university with Mexican partners to explore shared challenges and opportunities.
A two-time ASU graduate, Mia is a journalist whose work has been published in English and Spanish in outlets including The New York Times, Slate, Longreads, The Marshall Project, Narratively, Law & Society Review, Nexos, and Letras Libres. In addition, she has served as a volunteer teacher in Arizona prisons and interned at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Arizona Innocence Project.
Mia is a Fulbright scholar, and she spent the 2019-2020 academic year in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico, where she taught English and worked on a narrative storytelling project with women who work on offshore oil platforms. She is also a Flinn Foundation Scholar and is fully bilingual.
In 2019, Mia won Nicholas Kristof's New York Times Win-a-Trip contest, and went on an international reporting trip with the columnist. Subsequently, four of her columns were published in the Times.
An Arizonan and a Sun Devil, she couldn't be prouder to work for ASU.