Emily Hoerner is an investigative reporter who works with data at the Chicago Tribune. She has reported on health systems that allowed doctors, nurses and other employees accused of sexually abusing patients to continue providing care, toxic traces of brain-damaging lead found in school drinking water throughout the state of Illinois, and the lack of publicly accessible restrooms in Chicago. 

She previously covered criminal justice at Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom based in Chicago. 

After studying journalism and political science at Iowa, Emily obtained a Master of Science in Journalism at Northwestern University.