Casey Parks (original) (raw)
Portland, Ore
Staff reporter covering LGBTQ issues
Education: Millsaps College, B.A. in English; Columbia University, M.A. in Journalism
Casey Parks is a reporter on The Washington Post's America team. Previously, she was a staff reporter at the Oregonian, where she wrote about race and LGBTQ issues. Her story “The Pact,” about two Tongan teenagers torn between playing college football and serving a Mormon missionary service, was a finalist for the Livingston Award. “About a Boy,” her three-part series about a transgender teenager in Washington State, was included in The 2018 Mayborn Best American Newspaper Narratives. She was a Spencer Fellow in education reporting at Columbia University, and her articles about education and