Emily Schultheis is a reporter. She started at POLITICO as a 2010 summer intern and never really left. Filing stories throughout her senior year at the University of Pennsylvania, Schultheis reported on the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate and gubernatorial races and helped with POLITICO’s 2012 Live page. She graduated from Penn with an honors degree in English literature in May 2011.

Schultheis began covering politics for The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2008, trailing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton throughout Philadelphia during the lead-up to the Pennsylvania primary. She later interned for Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia City Paper, UWIRE’s Youth Vote ’08 blog and the census watchdog blog MyTwoCensus.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Schultheis is excited to live in the nation’s capital but slightly less enthusiastic about adjusting to Washington weather. Apart from her interest in politics, she is an avid Jane Austen fan.