Sally Jenkins
Washington, D.C.
Sports columnist
Education: Stanford University, B.A. English Literature
Sally Jenkins began her second stint at The Washington Post in 2000 after spending the previous decade working as a book author and as a magazine writer. She was named the nation’s top sports columnist in 2001, 2003, 2010, 2011 and 2021 by the Associated Press Sports Editors. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, and in 2022 was named winner by the Associated Press of the Red Smith Award for “major contributions to sports journalism.”
Jenkins is the author of 13 books, five of which were New York Times bestsellers, most recently “The Right Call: What Sports Teaches Us About Work
