Wax to India, McCrummen to Nairobi

We’re pleased to announce that Metro’s Stephanie McCrummen will become our new Nairobi bureau chief, succeeding Emily Wax, who is headed to India.

Stephanie has left a strong mark in our pages covering life in suburbia and exurbia. Her pieces have opened our eyes to people who live beyond the city, but are very much a part of our region. As she put it, “Over the years, such areas have been called exurbs and disurbs, edge counties and edgeless cities, exopoli, outtowns, penturbias, rururbias, slurbs and, curiously, net of mixed beads.”