Ilana Kowarski
Reporter
Before joining the staff at U.S. News, she worked for FLORIDA TODAY newspaper in Central Florida, and she was previously a State House reporter for the public service journalism website, MarylandReporter.com. While at MarylandReporter.com, she was a member of a journalism team that was awarded both a first-place, statewide prize for online news given by the Society of Professional Journalists and a “Best of Baltimore” award given by Baltimore Magazine, which identified MarylandReporter.com as the best political journalism website in the Baltimore region.
She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelors’ degree in Law, Letters and Society from the University of Chicago, where she graduated as both a Phi Beta Kappa and a Student Marshal, which is the highest academic honor for undergraduates.
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