Karen DeYoung is the associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The Washington Post. In her more than three decades at the Post, DeYoung has served as bureau chief for Latin America, foreign editor, bureau chief in London, national editor, White House correspondent, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor for national news. DeYoung has won a number of prestigious awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, for her coverage of the war on terror. She is also the author of Soldier, a biography of US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

DeYoung joined the Dialogue as a Member in 1992.