Marjorie Valbrun

Marjorie Valbrun is managing editor of Inside Higher Ed, a Washington-based media company and online news outlet focused on higher education. She was previously the health and education editor at The Baltimore Sun.

She began her journalism career as a local government reporter at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and went on to work as a general assignment reporter and foreign correspondent at The Miami Herald, an urban affairs reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a national correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.

She wrote widely at all three publications about American foreign policy in Haiti, Haitian political and economic affairs, and Haitian immigration to the U.S. Valbrun also was a contributing writer for TheRoot.com and Slate.com where she wrote broadly about the intersection of race, politics, and gender. She has an extensive background reporting on immigration trends, refugee crises, and U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

She also has done reporting projects on post-earthquake rebuilding in Haiti for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity, and on the influence and participation of Haitian Americans in U.S politics for the Alicia Patterson Foundation. She has taught journalism at Howard University, University of Maryland, and American University. She’s an alum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Journalism Fellowship Program at Harvard University.

Valbrun was born in Haiti and immigrated to the U.S as a child with her family. She grew up in Spring Valley, NY.