Karen DeYoung

Karen DeYoung is senior national security correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where she has been a foreign correspondent and Washington reporter covering the White House, the State Department, and the intelligence community. She is the author of “Soldier,” a biography of Colin Powell. She will teach a Fall 2026 course on “The End of the Humanitarian Era.” In the course, students will examine and report on the collapse of the post-World War II foreign aid structure.