Felicia Sonmez is an enthusiastic and creative American journalist based in Washington, D.C. She is a national reporter on The Washington Post’s breaking political news team.
Early Life
Felicia Sonmez was born in 1983 in the United States to her adoring parents. She had always been a very active and stubborn girl, or should we say a righteous girl, since she was a toddler. She has never mentioned anything about her family and kept her personal life a secret from the media. Felicia earned a Bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University in 2005. She also spent a year as a Blakemore Freeman Fellow at Tsinghua University studying advanced Chinese.
Felicia Sonmez Career
Felicia began her work immediately after graduating. She began her profession as an English teacher in Beijing. She’s also written for the Asahi Shimbun and National Journal’s The Hotline about US politics. She launched a complaint against the paper as well as some of its top executives. However, the lawsuit was recently dismissed. She is a political reporter in Washington, D.C. who covers breaking news from the Congress, the White House, and the campaign trail.
Before her current position as a political reporter, she has spent more than four years of work, first as an Agence France-Presse correspondent in Beijing and then at The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report as the editor. She covered national politics for The Washington Post from 2010 until 2013, starting as a writer for The Fix, he went on to cover Congress, the 2012 presidential campaign, and also President Barack Obama’s first two years in office.
Controversy
Felicia sent a link to a 2016 The Daily Beast piece titled “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case” on January 26, 2020, just hours after Kobe Bryant’s death. Sonmez said that “10,000 individuals” had commented and “emailed me with insults and death threats” after her now-deleted tweet caused controversy. “Well, THAT was eye-opening,” she said about the outpouring of hate mail, emphasizing that she was unrelated to the story she tweeted, as evidenced by screenshots of the letters. “Any public character is worth remembering in their whole,” she said, “even if that public figure is cherished and that totality frightening.”
She published another tweet outlining some of the harassment, one of which contained a screenshot of an email she received at work underlining the hate she was receiving. The political writer was “put on administrative leave,” according to Washington Post managing editor Tracy Grant, as the paper investigated if her Bryant tweets “violated The Post newsroom’s social media policy.” In July 2021, Sonmez made headlines once more when she filed a lawsuit against The Washington Post, claiming that the newspaper had discriminated against her, by refusing to allow her to cover sexual assault after she came forward as a victim. The case was thrown out.
Social Media
Felicia uses the handle @feliciasonmez on Instagram, where she has 1,700 followers and 982 followings, as well as 2,265 posts. Since April 2010 she has been active on Twitter since April 2010 under the handle @feliciasonmez, with 111.9k and 14.6k followings, respectively.
Felicia Sonmez Biography |
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| Real Name | Felicia Sonmez |
| Birth Date | 1983 |
| Age (as of 2022) | 39 Years |
| Birth Place | United States |
| Profession | Reporter |
| College | Harvard University |
| Qualification | BA |
Physical Statistics |
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| Height | in feet inches – 5’ 7” – in Centimeters – 1700 cm |
| Weight | in Kilograms – 56 kg – in Pounds – 123 lbs |
| Hair Color | Blonde |
| Eye Color | Brown |
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Family |
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| Father | – |
| Mother | – |
| Sister | – |
| Brother | – |
Relationship Status |
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| Marital Status | Married |
| Who is her husband? | – |
| Children | Two |
Personal Life
Felicia Sonmez has never been one to make a big deal out of her romantic relationships. Sonmez is a mother of two children so it’s obvious she had married in the past. Because her personal life is kept private, her husband’s identity and the year of their wedding are unknown.
Felicia Sonmez Net Worth
Felicia Sonmez has a net worth of $70 thousand dollars. She is only able to earn such a large sum because of her talent, passion, and dedication to her profession. She enjoys photography in addition to writing essays.
Trivia
- Felicia speaks Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish in addition to English.
- She worked for a Japanese newspaper agency and covered the 2008 US election campaign.
