Christi Parsons

Christi Parsons is a White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times/ Tribune newspapers and the recent past president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. She has covered the White House for seven years, and prior to that covered presidential campaigns, the U.S. Congress and Illinois politics. She wrote about state prisons, the death penalty and the downfall of two governors while posted in the Illinois Statehouse, where she also covered the early career of state Sen. Barack Obama. She studied Journalism and English at the University of Alabama and holds a master’s degree from Yale Law School.