Emma Brown
Reporter

Emma Brown covers Virginia schools. She joined The Washington Post in 2009 and spent more than a year writing obituaries for all kinds of people, including a beloved local bookstore owner, a British woman who devoted her life to saving donkeys and a free-spirited fellow who once sailed across the Atlantic on a 51-foot raft built out of junk. Before her life as a reporter, she worked as a wilderness ranger in Wyoming and a middle-school math teacher in Alaska.