Theresa Vargas
Washington, D.C.
Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities.
Education: bachelor's from Stanford University; master's from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Theresa Vargas is a columnist for The Washington Post. Before that, she worked on the local enterprise team, writing stories that took her, among other places, into a home for transgender teens, a support group for survivors of gun violence and a courtroom where a woman with Down syndrome fought for the right to decide how she lives. During the peak of the recession, she and a photographer traveled across the country to chronicle how Americans were coping. Before coming to The Post, she worked at Newsday in New York.