Danielle Paquette is a reporter for the Washington Post in Washington, D.C., where she writes about gender, policy and the economy. She previously worked as a crime reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's largest newspaper. Paquette's stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, LA Weekly and Indianapolis Monthly. While studying journalism at Indiana University, she won the Hearst National Writing Competition and was named Student Journalist of the Year.