Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton

Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton is an award-winning reporter covering Denver’s neighborhoods. She reported on the business beat for almost two years at The Denver Post, focusing her coverage on social inequities in business.

She writes for Smithsonian Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Delish, Eater and other publications. For two years, she chased after lawmakers on Capitol Hill as Bloomberg Government's agriculture and trade policy reporter. Megan has covered the Venezuelan refugee crisis in Peru, immigration in Colombia, socioeconomic issues in Guatemala, parliamentary affairs in England and White House press briefings in Washington, D.C. During her stint at Arizona PBS, she worked two beats: borderlands and social justice.

Megan received her master's in mass communication from Arizona State University. She now occasionally teaches Media Issues in American Pop Culture as a faculty adjunct. Megan is a 2024 “I Heart Readers” Award winner, a 2023 Goldschmidt Data Immersion Fellow, a 2023 “I Heart Readers” Award runner-up, a 2022 Cannabis Media Fellow at UVM, a Beltz Award for Editorial Excellence winner, a past Pulliam Journalism Fellow and White House Correspondents' Association scholar. She's a member of the Overseas Press Club, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, the Colorado Press Association and the Online News Association.