David Baumann

At Johns Hopkins, David Baumann is a lecturer for the MA in Government program.

Baumann is a writer for the Consumer Financial Services blog at Ballard Spahr, a law firm. He also is a contributing writer for CQResearcher. Before joining Ballard Spahr, David established and edited the Washington Credit Union Daily website. Prior to that, David was the Washington correspondent for the Credit Union Times. A veteran Washington reporter, he has spent his career writing and editing for many of the capital’s leading publications, including CongressDaily, National Journal magazine and Congressional Quarterly Weekly. He was part of a team that won a 2005 National Headliner Award for a special issue of the National Journal on “The State of Congress.”

Baumann holds a BA in political science from The George Washington University and an MA in journalism from Indiana University.