Delece Smith-Barrow has been named deputy health editor at Politico, leading a team of journalists focused on health research, health tech and soon the surgeon general.
She has been education editor, leading a team of journalists writing about national education policy trends and legislation, curriculum battles, student loan servicers, teacher unions and related topics.
Prior to joining Politico, she was a senior editor for higher education at The Hechinger Report. She spent the 2016-2017 school year as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan where she studied how top-tier universities were increasing the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty.
Smith-Barrow has also worked as a reporter covering graduate schools at U.S. News & World Report and a producer, writer and editor at The Washington Post. She received a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland-College Park and a master’s degree from Georgetown University.
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