Caitlin McDevitt graduated from Georgetown in 2008 with a degree in English and a double minor in Government and Spanish. She was a senior staff writer for the Pearl Project during her last year on campus. This was her first real insight into the challenges and thrills of reporting. She wrote for The Hoya and interned at Washingtonpost.com on the Metro desk while in DC. Following graduation, she worked as an editorial intern at Newsweek in the Boston bureau. Her worked appeared frequently in the magazine's Periscope and Project Green sections. After that, she moved to New York and spent a few months as an editorial intern at Inc. magazine covering small business and entrepreneurship before landing in her current position, as the editorial assistant for Slate's business site, The Big Money. Her articles—largely dealing with business and economics—appear online and, on occasion are printed in the Washington Post's Business Day section.