Carol Morello, a native of Michigan, is a journalism school graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Southern California. She came to the Washington Post in 2000, after spending more than decade at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she covered off-the-beaten-track Pennsylvania, Central America, the Middle East and the West Coast, and two years at USA Today. At the Post, she has worked as a reporter in Virginia and as an assistant editor on the city desk. She writes about the census and demographics, and loves telling stories about changes in the way we live our lives.