Kirstin Downey Biography

Kirstin Downey is a frequent contributor to the "Washington Post," where from 1988 to 2008 she was a staff writer, winning press association awards for her business and economic reporting. She shared in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Washingon Post for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, and was awarded a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. She left the Washington Post in 2008 to focus on finishing her biography of Frances Perkins, the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, entitled "The Woman Behind the New Deal." Weaving Frances Perkin’s story and legacy with current events and legislation, Downey lectures on the current state of employment in the United States, addressing the ever hot- button issues of social security, minimum wage and unemployment insurance.

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