Christa Case Bryant is The Christian Science Monitor’s senior congressional correspondent, striving to provide thoughtful, original coverage that is rigorously fair. She is the winner of the 2022 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. 

She started covering national politics in 2016, fresh off a Nieman fellowship and three years in the Middle East as the Monitor’s Jerusalem bureau chief. That experience crisscrossing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proved valuable as she began traversing her own country’s increasingly polarized landscape in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, reporting from the American heartland as well as covering the 2020 presidential race in her native New Hampshire. 

Ms. Bryant holds an M.A. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. from Principia College, where a journalism professor inspired her to join his study abroad program to South Africa, planting the seeds for a career in the field. She also attended the Middlebury School of Hebrew and studied spoken Arabic in Jerusalem.

After many years as a cross-country ski racer on the national and international level, Ms. Bryant has a special interest in all things Olympian.  She has contributed to the Monitor’s Olympic coverage since 2004, including from the 2010 and 2018 Winter Games.