Delece Smith-Barrow

Adjunct Lecturer - SCS MPS - Journalism Program

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - Master of Professional Studies

Delece Smith-Barrow is a deputy health editor at POLITICO, where she manages journalists who cover health technology, opioid policy and the surgeon general.

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Prior to this role, Delece was the education editor at POLITICO. She has also served as the senior editor for higher education at The Hechinger Report. She spent the 2016-2017 school year as Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she spent a year studying how top-tier universities are increasing the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty. Prior to joining The Hechinger Report, she was a reporter at U.S. News & World Report, and a producer, writer and editor at The Washington Post. She received a bachelor's degree from University of Maryland--College Park and a master's degree from Georgetown University.