JOURNALIST | Chris Jenkins

Editor

As an editor for The Washington Post, Chris led award winning accountability journalism, including stories that helped bring down a rogue Fairfax County police officer and held city officials accountable for social service dysfunction.

PART 1: Relisha Rudd’s difficult past comes into focus

PART 2: Before Relisha Rudd went missing, the 8-year-old longed to escape D.C.’s homeless shelter

PART 3: Social worker’s nightmare: The day he discovered Relisha Rudd was missing

PART 1: John B. Geer had hands up when shot by police, four officers say in documents

PART 2: The killing of John Geer now looks unmistakably like a police coverup

As Managing Editor of The Root, Chris commissioned and edited viral pieces that sparked national and regional conversation around politics, pop culture and gentrification.

Awkwardly, Two towns, One District

Stealing home?

1963

57th Inauguration

The Future of Race Relations

Writer

As a long time staff writer for The Washington Post, Chris covered local, state and national politics, social policy, poverty and immigration. His prime focus was reporting on how marginalized communities overcame structural inequality, social injustice and governmental indifference and corruption.