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Candace Rondeaux
Affiliation during program: St. Petersburg Times
Country Focus: Georgia
Candace Rondeaux is the Islamabad/Kabul Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. She previously covered criminal justice issues in Maryland and Virginia where she was part of a team of Pulitzer Prize winning reporters, photograpers and editors who helped cover the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. Prior to joining the Post in early 2006, she was a staff writer in Florida for The St. Petersburg Times for four year covering legal topics in Tampa. She has reported extensively capital punishment in Virginia, on forensic DNA developments and wrongful convictions. Previously, she was based in New York City where she worked for The New York Observer and interned for the New York Daily News investigative team. Rondeaux earned a B. A. in Russian Area Studies from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York in 1996, spending her final year in Russia where she studied literature at St. Petersburg State University. She worked in book publishing for four years before earning an M.A in journalism from New York University and graduating with honors in 2002. She has written book reviews for Publishers Weekly and has also written for the Village Voice, Vibe, POZ, The Russia Journal and The National Catholic Reporter.
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