Theola Labbé-DeBose

Theola Labbé-DeBose (labbet@washpost.com) is a Metro reporter for The Washington Post. She joined the newspaper in 2001 and has covered education, social services and was a former Iraq correspondent, winning an award for her foreign coverage. She has also written for Newsday, the Detroit Free Press and the Albany (NY) Times Union and worked in women's magazines and book publishing. A native of Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up with her Haitian-born parents, she graduated from public school on Long Island, Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in the District and covers crime and public safety.