Felicia Sonmez
Washington, D.C.
National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team
Education: Harvard University, B.A. in Government, 2005
Felicia Sonmez is a national political reporter covering breaking news from the White House, Congress and the campaign trail. Previously, she spent more than four years in Beijing, where she worked first as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse and later as the editor of The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report. She also spent a year in advanced Chinese language study as a Blakemore Freeman Fellow at Tsinghua University.
From 2010 to 2013, she reported on national politics for TheWashington Post, starting as a writer for The Fix and going on to cover Congress, the 2012 presidential