Justin Pope is chief of staff and advisor to President Reveley, where he leads strategic initiatives and communications, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations.

Prior to coming to Longwood in 2013, Pope was one of the nation’s leading education journalists. From 2004-2013 he was national higher education reporter for The Associated Press, where his work won awards from groups including the Education Writers Association, the AP Managing Editors Association, the Headliners Club and the United Nations. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.

A Richmond native, Pope graduated from Princeton University and received an M.Phil in Economic and Social History from Oxford.