Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Jesse Washington is a journalist and documentary filmmaker for ESPN’s Andscape, a Black-led media platform dedicated to creating, highlighting, and uplifting the diverse stories of Black identity. He is the co-author of I Came as a Shadow which details the life of the late and legendary Georgetown basketball coach, John Thompson; he is author of the novel Black Will Shoot. Washington is currently writing the autobiography of the sports agent Rich Paul.

With a long career in journalism and writing, Washington has been, since 2015, a senior writer for ESPN's The Undefeated, a platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports, and culture that created the basis for Andscape. He has won a National Journalism Award from the Asian-American Journalists Association, Journalist of the Year award from the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, two feature awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, and a 2019 Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 award for column writing.

Washington has a B.A. in English from Yale University. A lifelong member of the Baha'i Faith, he notes that he still gets buckets.

Mr. Washington’s Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at CMC.