Kate Bachelder Odell is a writer based out of Washington, D.C.. Kate Bachelder Odell is an editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal .

Kate Bachelder Odell is a graduate of the Herbert H. Dow II Program in American Journalism at Hillsdale College. Kate Bachelder Odell graduated from Hillsdale with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy and Latin. While studying at Hillsdale she was also involved in their award-winning newspaper, The Collegian .

In an interview for Hillsdale College, Kate Bachelder Odell said, “A core academic discipline is an indispensable thing to have,” Kate said. “I now work for a newspaper that focuses on taxes and economics, and I am more comfortable with discussing these issues because I studied them in college.”

Kate Bachelder Odell said her favorite class in college was Advanced Writing, taught by John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program. “It’s a class on human nature but expressed on paper through the written word,” Kate said. “It gave me the core skills to evaluate something and think about it in the context of history or even in something I read in Dante. These types of vignettes are more useful than anything I could have memorized.”

Kate Bachelder Odel said that she uses this type of critical thinking for the pieces she writes in the WSJ by connecting big, abstract ideas to reality and everyday people. “Nothing I learned in a textbook helped me do that,” Kate said. “Expert knowledge is no substitution for the human condition and human story.”

“Journalism majors tend to focus on updating you on the latest technology,” Kate said.

“Hillsdale gave me skills that will adapt to however the technology or the wind changes.”

Bachelder Odell is an editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal . She is mainly interested in writing about taxes and healthcare. Bachelder Odell has said that the most rewarding part of her career has been writing about drug development and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and how to move therapies to market more efficiently. Her other abiding interest is the people of the American armed forces, as her husband is US Navy pilot.

Bachelder Odell has written articles for the Journal including, "It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media", "Where the Longest Day Lives On", "When Medical Innovation Meets Politics", "Tax Reform’s Growth Whisperer", and "The Georgia Race to Replace Tom Price Is No Referendum on Trump".

Bachelder Odell previously worked for the Journal as a junior editor.

She joined The Wall Street Journal in 2013 as a Robert L. Bartley Fellow.

Bachelder Odell's husband serves in the United States Navy as a Pilot.