Lydia DePillis is a reporter at ProPublica covering trade and economic policy in the Trump administration. Previously, she served as an economy reporter at CNN Business and at the Houston Chronicle, a business reporter at the Washington Post, a technology writer at The New Republic, and a real estate columnist at the Washington City Paper, where she authored its award-winning Housing Complex blog.
Lydia is a native of Seattle, Washington and attended Columbia College in New York City, where she spent most of her time blogging. Her work has also appeared in the New York Observer, Pacific Standard, Slate, and various trade publications, and she has appeared on a wide variety of radio and television stations.
She lives in lovely Long Island City, New York, and can be reached at lydia.depillis@gmail.com.
Photo by Reed Young.
We’ll miss you here in DC.
Sad to see you leave, I truly enjoyed your work at the City Paper.
Hello Lydia,
My name is Beau and I’m trying to help my friend in the Au Pair program. I just read an article you wrote on The Washington Post, here https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/20/au-pairs-provide-cheap-childcare-maybe-illegally-cheap/ , and was wondering what the end result was for Johana Beltran. Our friend is unwillingly being sent home as her host family “does not think she fits well”; they really just don’t like that she has American friends and isn’t there after “work hours” to clean and cook for the family. We are trying to help her stay here and find alternatives for her J1 visa. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much!