Post Reports Creators & Guests

Elahe Izadi is a reporter and stand-up comic.

Martine Powers is the Host of The Washington Post Reports daily podcast. Previously, she worked at the Boston Globe, Transom.org, and Politico.

Linah Mohammad is a producer for Post Reports.

Jordan-Marie Smith is a producer for The Washington Post's Post Reports.

Alexis Diao is a freelance journalist and radio producer. Currently, she produces for The New York Times' podcast "The Daily." Her essays and production work have appeared on National Public Radio, Slate, and Southern Foodways' "Alliance Gravy" podcast.Previously, Diao produced for "Post Reports" at The Washington Post. Before that, she worked as a breaking news editor and producer for NPR. She has also worked for American Public Media's Marketplace and C-SPAN Radio. She got her start in high school as a music DJ for her community radio station, WVFS Tallahassee.

Ted Muldoon is an audio editor for The Washington Post and producer for Post Reports Podcast.

Rennie Svirnovskiy is a producer for Post Reports.

Reena Flores is a senior producer for The Washington Post's Post Reports.

Jacob Bogage is a business reporter at The Washington Post.

Amie Ferris-Rotman is a journalist. She is currently the Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post.Prior to working for the Washington Post, Ferris-Rotman was a Moscow correspondent for Reuters. She has covered Russia for The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy, Afghanistan for Reuters, and the Ukraine conflict for The Atlantic, Politico, and Die Zeit. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.Ferris-Rotman was born and raised in London. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Russian studies from University College London.

Julie Courtney Sullivan is an author.Before becoming a full-time novelist, Sullivan was a reporter for The New York Times. Previously, she worked for Allure, starting immediately after graduating from school. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, the New York Observer, Men's Vogue, Elle, and Glamour.Sullivan's first novel, "Commencement," was published in 2010. Her subsequent novels are "Maine" (2011), "The Engagements" (2013), "Saints For All Occasions" (2017), and "Friends and Strangers" (2020).Sullivan received her B.A. in English Literature from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for The Washington Post, writer, and author of the book, "The 21 Day Financial Fast."

Louisa Loveluck is a reporter. Currently, she is the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post.Previously, Loveluck was the Daily Telegraph's Cairo correspondent.Loveluck received her B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Devlin Barrett is a journalist who writes about national security and law enforcement, focusing on federal law enforcement and security, including terrorism, cybercrime, drugs, and public corruption. He currently reports for The Washington Post.Barrett started as a copy boy at the New York Post and since then has covered the NYPD, federal courts, and the Justice Department and its component agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Barrett received his B.A. from McGill University.

Peter Holley is a journalist. Currently, he is a Senior Editor at Texas Monthly.Previously, Holley was a report for The Washington Post. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Huffington Post, Newsday, NY Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Texas Monthly, the Houston Chronicle, and the San Antonio Express-News.Holley received his B.A. in Pre-Law Studies from American University and his M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University.

Missy Ryan is a journalist.

Yasmeen Abutaleb is a New York Times best selling author and journalist who was the national health policy reporter and as of August 4, 2022 is a White House reporter for The Washington Post.

Wesley Lowery is a journalist who reports on race in America. He currently writes for The Washington Post and appears on CNN as a political contributor. He is known for his work on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016.Lowery has reported for the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.In 2014, the National Association of Black Journalists named Lowery "Emerging Journalist of the Year."Lowery's first book, "They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement," was published in 2016.Lowery received attended Ohio University, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, The Post, and interned at The Detroit News, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Wall Street Journal.