Parker briefed National Press Foundation fellows in February 2022: Build Sources from the Outside In.

Ashley Parker is the White House bureau chief for The Washington Post. She previously covered the Trump presidency for The Post. She was part of the Washington Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018, for their coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In 2019, Parker served as one of the moderators for the Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta, hosted by The Washington Post and MSNBC.

She joined The Post in 2017, after 11 years at the New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, Congress, among other things. She is an NBC/MSNBC senior political analyst and has also written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Glamour, The Washingtonian, as well as other publications.

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a degree in both English and Communications and lives in Washington, D.C.