Join us to hear Ms. Stolberg
speak about Obama’s first 100 days on Monday, April 6 from 4:00
p.m. - 5:30 p.m. at the University Union in Chesapeake III. Ms.
Stolberg regularly rides on Air Force One, interviews President
Obama and is published on the front page of The New York Times.
She will discuss the President's first 100 days from a
reporter's perspective, including his transformation from
senator to president and the differences in covering President
Obama and President Bush.
Ms. Stolberg joined The Times in 1997 as a science correspondent
in the Washington bureau, writing about the intersection of
science and public policy, including topics as the AIDS
epidemic, the 2001 anthrax attacks, bioethics controversies and
the fight over federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
In 2002, she moved to Capitol Hill to cover Congress, a beat she
held until 2006, when she began covering the administration of
President George W. Bush. She now covers President Obama.
As a White House correspondent,
Ms. Stolberg writes on a broad range of foreign and domestic
issues, from education to health care and the economy, to the
Middle East peace process and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
She is an occasional guest on television shows such as Charlie
Rose, as well as on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show.
Ms. Stolberg began her journalism
career at The Providence Journal in Providence, R.I.. Prior to
joining The Times, she worked at The Los Angeles Times, where
she shared in two Pulitzer Prizes won by that newspaper’s staff
for coverage of the 1992 riots and 1994 wildfires. She is a
graduate of the University of Virginia and lives in Chevy Chase,
Md. with her husband, the photographer Scott Robinson, their two
daughters and a new puppy.
