Wesley Lowery is a reporter for the Washington Post who covers politics, as well as issues of race and law enforcement. In 2014, he served as one of the Post's lead reporters covering the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting death of Michael Brown as well as the protest movement that soon sprouted in dozens of American cities. Prior to joining the Post, Lowery worked for the Boston Globe where he contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize winning breaking news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing.