Svetlana Shkolnikova has joined Stars and Stripes in Washington D.C. as a congressional reporter. Previously, she was a fellow at the U.S. House of Representatives.
She has also worked as a congressional journalist fellow at the American Political Science Association and as a reporter at The Record in New York. She has also reported for the North Jersey Media Group and was a correspondent at TASS in Moscow.
Shkolnikova has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Maryland.