Ylan Q. Mui is a financial reporter at The Washington Post covering consumers and the economy. She has interviewed CEOs at the nation's largest companies, leading politicians and senior government officials as well as unemployed workers, distraught fishermen and disaster victims. She has reported from Vietnam, Brazil, Las Vegas and the Gulf Coast.Ylan is a graduate of the Asian American Journalists Association's Executive Leadership Program and former vice president of the AAJA's Washington D.C. chapter. She was also an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Maryland and taught SAT prep courses to promising Vietnamese students. Ylan graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans with a major in communications and a double minor in biology and philosophy.