Robert Samuels is a national enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who focuses on politics, policy, and the changing American identity. He is also the co-author of “His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Samuels has covered social issues in the District of Columbia, national politics, and also serves at the newsroom’s analyst for figure skating. He grew up in the Bronx and is an alumnus of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, where he was editor in chief of the school newspaper, the Daily Northwestern. He has also worked as a staff writer at The Miami Herald and The New Yorker.