Ian Shapira ‘00 worked as a staff writer and editorial page editor of the Daily Princetonian before graduating from Princeton in 2000 with an English degree. He joined The Washington Post right after college and became a reporting intern in the Style section. 

He's now a member of the Metro section’s enterprise team. His articles on the Virginia Tech and Navy Yard shootings were included in the Post's entries that won the Pulitzer Prize and that were named as a finalist in the breaking news category. His stories chronicling systemic racism, sexism, sexual assault and waterboarding at the Virginia Military Institute won a George Polk award, the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, and the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award from Columbia University for reporting on racial or religious hatred, intolerance or discrimination. In 2012, his discovery of archival documents about a Renoir painting up for auction led to its seizure by the FBI and the revelation it had been stolen decades earlier from the Baltimore Museum of Art.

This is part of the Princeton in Washington program, which is open to current Princeton students and recent alumni in the D.C. area over the summer. Email the Princeton in Washington coordinator to learn the location and RSVP.