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The Washington Post finds success using Arc XP to run our digital services, which attracted Emily Nielson to work in the Arc XP organization as a senior software engineer. Emily’s goal is to help companies around the world publish content faster and easier using Arc XP. Helping companies publish ideas around the world ties back to The Post’s mission to ensure democracy doesn’t die in darkness. And she gets to do her work with colleagues who are collaborative and diverse. Arc XP is the most diverse organization she’s ever worked for, which leads to innovation.
With bureaus around the world and 24/7 coverage, The Washington Post continues to expand globally. A key international expansion team member is Sara Mogilski, our Senior International HR/Global Mobility Specialist. She helps make it possible for our staff to work around the world. She’s a problem solver by nature. People come to her every day with seemingly simple requests that are actually highly nuanced and complex. She enjoys guiding managers and employees through these complex global transactions while making everything seem easy. That way they can focus on reporting. Working with a diverse group of people across The Post, Sara is grateful for her colleagues. “The people make The Post such a great place to work,” she says. She also loves working for a D.C. institution with a long history and entrepreneurial spirit. And one with a meaningful mission.
Meet Alia ElKattan. She’s a creative technologist and one of our summer interns. Every day, Alia and her team works on telling stories in ways that are accessible, engaging, and even fun. Interactive storytelling allows Alia to explore how and when technology can best serve our stories and audiences. In fact, it’s what brought her to The Washington Post. Coming from an interdisciplinary background in computer science, political science, and interactive media, The Post’s internship is an opportunity to explore her overarching interest in technology and storytelling. What also motivates her is The Post’s mission. She believes in order to live in a democracy, people need avenues to voice their needs and concerns, to shape and contribute to public discourse and action. On the flipside, Alia believes that people need access to transparent and truthful information about their states and institutions to make informed decisions and be able to hold stakeholders accountable.
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Tess Homan started dreaming about working at the Washington Post as a college journalism student. “I was always inspired by the creative, innovative ways people were telling stories and reaching out to new audiences, from Snapchat (before TikTok was a thing) and projects like @thelily, to incredible data visualization and graphics,” she says. She’s been on staff at The Post for more than four years and, most recently, helped develop and launch The 7, our daily morning briefing, which she now co-writes with Jamie Ross. Their goal is to make it easy for readers to catch up on the day’s biggest stories and quickly understand why they matter. It’s all part of a bigger calling. Journalists have a responsibility to hold the people and systems in power accountable, and — this where Tess’s job comes in — “part of doing that effectively is making sure our work is as accessible to as many people as we can, through the way we write, the words we choose and the platforms and formats we use,” she says.
Next Gen Audience Editor Yu Vongkiatkajorn’s childhood interest in storytelling led to a journalism career. Yu enjoys talking to people, understanding their experiences, and then turning those experiences into stories. Now through the NextGen Initiative, Yu attracts younger and more diverse readers to The Post.
Video Editor & Producer Lindsey Sitz was gifted a camcorder around the age of 7 and she began seeing the world through the camera's lens and recording life around her. Lindsay's love of visual story telling stayed with her, leading to a career at The Post.
After working in publishing her entire career, Teresa Williams, a product marketing manager, was excited to join The Washington Post because of the diverse perspective in coverage. She says, “It’s not just a story about climate change – it’s an in-depth environmental justice story about how climate change has disproportionately affected people who are low-income and part of marginalized communities.”
Washington Post Printing Facility Plant Manager John Bratt was a prominent youth baseball player growing up. After a game, he would check out his scores in the sports section and that experience was his first introduction to newspapers. Now, John enjoys his dream job of working at The Plant, producing the print edition of The Washington Post 7 days a week and 365 days a year.
Washington Post Opinions Editor Drew Goins spent his recess time helping friends with their writing assignments. Now, Drew helps underrepresented writers tell their stories in the Opinions section.
