Irving Washington
Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Health Information and Trust Initiative
Irving Washington is senior vice president and executive director of the Health Information and Trust Initiative at KFF. He leads the initiative’s work examining how people get health information, which sources they trust and how misinformation, social media and artificial intelligence are changing the information environment.
That work includes The Monitor, a twice-monthly report that brings research and analysis on health information to journalists, public health professionals, funders and policymakers.
Before joining KFF, Washington spent 11 years at the Online News Association, including six as CEO. He helped diversify the organization’s revenue and expand its work beyond the annual conference into year-round leadership programs, local networks and grant-funded experimentation.
Washington is a founding board member and chair of the American Journalism Project. He also serves as a trustee of the ABIM Foundation.
Earlier in his career, he held roles at the Radio Television Digital News Foundation and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Washington is an ASAE Fellow and a Certified Association Executive. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University.