Brigid Schulte
Reporter

Brigid Schulte is an enterprise reporter on the local staff. She writes stories that capture the way we live now and has reported on dying bats, early spring blooms, potty training controversies and adult women being diagnosed with ADHD in droves. She has also written about education and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for covering the Virginia Tech massacre. She came to the Post in 1999 after working as a national correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers’ Washington Bureau and a stint covering southern politics. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two children.

Latest by Brigid Schulte

What’s wrong with American parents?

What’s wrong with American parents?

We don’t need to look abroad for answers.

Crash and yearn

Crash and yearn

When her beloved Volvo arrived at the junkyard, its journey was still far from finished.

A boxer’s fight

A boxer’s fight

Tony Suggs was one fight away from representing the United States in the 1988 Olympics. But crack derailed his career and his life. Still, unlike many of his peers, he survived life on the streets, and he has reinvented himself as a motivational speaker. He just hasn’t learned how to let go of the past.

Moms share stories of opting in, out of workforce

Readers respond to a recent article about recruiting firms who negotiate for flexible job schedules to help working mothers. Here are their stories about the struggle to