In recent months, Katy has helped reporters break stories about Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, collaborating across desks to help drive coverage of the early waves of firings at federal agencies. She also helped them tell deeply personal stories, such as Emma Uber’s narrative about a woman who waited 44 years to tell police about the man who sexually abused her as a child and Emily Davies’s story about Ryleigh Cooper, a Trump voter and federal worker who lost her job amid DOGE cuts.
Katy came to The Post from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she was news editor and creative team leader, directing metro reporters and reimagining coverage. She edited columns by Michael Paul Williams that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Katy is graduate of the University of Mary Washington with a BA in political science and Virginia Commonwealth University with an MS in journalism.
She starts at The Washington Post on May 19.
