Catherine Rampell

Catherine Rampell (born November 4, 1984) is an American opinion journalist and syndicated columnist. She was born and raised in South Florida to a Jewish family. Rampell earned an A.B. in anthropology from Princeton University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2007. She completed a 150-page senior thesis titled 'Hawk the Vote: Marketing Voting to American Youth'. Rampell is a columnist for The Washington Post and a member of The Washington Post Writers Group. She is also a political commentator for CNN and PBS NewsHour. Before joining The Washington Post, Rampell worked as an economics journalist, theater critic, and blogger for The New York Times. She married Christopher Conlon in 2014.