Contributor Gail Russell Chaddock was the Monitor’s Washington-based politics editor, after covering Congress from 2001 until 2012 and education from 1997 to to 2000. Prior to her Washington assignments, Chaddock served as the Monitor’s Paris correspondent from 1994 to 1997. From 1992 to 1994, she was the Monitor’s Boston-based national news editor, responsible for the paper’s daily coverage of US news. Before that assignment, she served as an overseas news editor from 1987 to 1992.
Before joining the Monitor, Chaddock taught political science at Bennington College, Wesleyan University, and Swarthmore College from 1978 to 1986. She holds an MA in Political Science from Princeton University and a BA from Wellesley College.
She and her husband, Rob, live on the family farm in Brookline, New Hampshire, where she hosts the podcast “No Farms No Future” for American Farmland Trust. Gail is a frequent guest host on the Monitor’s “Why We Wrote This” podcast.
Stories by Gail Russell Chaddock
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This The Russian dream? Our writer profiles a new kind of North American expat.
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Trump and the law: A justice reporter talks about the busiest beat in news
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Religion and politics: A writer talks about her new hot-button beat
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘No different standard’: How one reporter prepares for a second Trump term
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work
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