jessica washington

 

Jessica is a national reporter covering race, gender and politics.

Jessica Washington is a national reporter who covers race, gender and politics. She has developed particular expertise centering on gender-justice issues, such as reproductive health, maternal mortality, childcare and education.

Jessica appears regularly on CNN and has made appearances on MSNBC, The Takeaway and Minnesota Public Radio. Meanwhile, her work has appeared in The Lily/ The Washington Post, The Root, Marie Claire, NBC News, The City, Mother Jones magazine and The Star Tribune. She also hosts "The 411," a weekly digital politics and news show for The Root, featuring powerhouse political guests including Yusef Salaam, Aimee Allison and Nina Smith.

A former senior reporter for The Root, Jessica also spent two years covering gender, politics, race and inequality for nonprofit news organization The Fuller Project. Before that, she was tapped as a National Health Journalism Fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where she worked on a long-term investigation exploring the impact of the child welfare system on Native families in Minnesota.

Jessica began her journalism career at NBC News and MSNBC as a desk assistant and production assistant, before being named a Ben Bagdikian Editorial Fellow and earning herself the reproductive health care beat at Mother Jones.

Expertise: gender justice, reproductive health, maternal health, maternal mortality, race, gender, politics, writing, communication, Black experience, child welfare

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