Lavanya Ramanathan was a senior editor and editor of the Today, Explained newsletter at Vox. Previously, she was a longtime features reporter covering trends, race, youth culture, and the zeitgeist at the Washington Post, which she joined in 2004. Before that, she was a METPRO fellow at Newsday and the Orlando Sentinel. She was also recently a professor of writing and reporting at George Washington University. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University.

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was a senior editor and editor of the Today, Explained newsletter at Vox. Previously, she was a longtime features reporter covering trends, race, youth culture, and the zeitgeist at the Washington Post.

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