Terrell J. Starr

Teaches at Studio Arts

Terrell Jermaine Starr is the senior reporter at The Root, writing about domestic and international politics from a black perspective. He writes opinion editorials for The New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications.

He was senior reporter at Foxtrot Alpha, a blog that focuses on military, technology and policy. Prior to that, he worked for FUSION as a national political correspondent covering the 2016 presidential campaign. He lived Ukraine as a Fulbright fellow, and Georgia as a Peace Corps volunteer. Starr has over four years of experience living in the former Soviet Union and more than eight years working as a reporter. Starr uses his media skills to break down Russia-U.S. relations in ways that make him not sound like a Washington hack.