Yolanda Woodlee

Yolanda Woodlee has been a political reporter at The Washington Post for 14 years and has covered the administrations of four mayors, including the comeback of Council member and former mayor Marion Barry. Her reporting was instrumental in having the name of former Mayor Anthony A. Williams removed from the ballot in 2001 because of fraudulent petitions. Before joining The Post, she worked at The Detroit News, The Miami Herald and The Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale and The Louisville Defender, in her hometown.