Catherine Rampell | |
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 Rampell in 2016 | |
| Born | Catherine Chelsea Rampell November 4, 1984 |
| Education | Princeton University (AB) |
| Occupation(s) | Opinion writer, columnist |
| Spouse | Christopher Conlon (m. 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
Catherine Chelsea Rampell (born November 4, 1984) is an American opinion editor and nationally syndicated opinion columnist.
Rampell grew up in a Jewish family in South Florida, the daughter of Ellen (née Kahn), an accountant, and Richard Rampell. [1] [2] [3] Both of her parents are Princeton alumni. [4]
Rampell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts (AB) in anthropology in 2007 after completing a 150-page-long senior thesis, titled "Hawk the Vote: Marketing Voting to American Youth", under the supervision of James A. Boon. [5] [1] [6]
Rampell is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post and a member of The Washington Post Writers Group. She is also a political commentator for CNN and PBS NewsHour. [7] Prior to joining The Washington Post, Rampell was an economics journalist, theater critic, and blogger for The New York Times . [8]
In a roundtable discussion on CNN in 2025, she dared Scott Jennings to raise his arm the way Elon Musk did, whom Jennings was defending. [9]
In September 2014, Rampell married Christopher Conlon. [10] Conlon has served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Associate Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. [11]
I would say I'm an agnostic. I was raised Jewish, but now am pretty secular.
But as a Jew, I find Putin's attempt to implicate my people to be disgusting, offensive and obviously false.