Julekha Dash is a Maryland journalist who covers food, travel, and art, specializing in the mid-Atlantic, with bylines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Food and Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Plate, and others. She also covers adaptive reuse, retail, and other commercial real estate topics as a longtime business reporter who held staff positions at the Baltimore Business Journal and Computerworld. A Pittsburgh native, Dash attended the University of Chicago and lived in Boston, Birmingham, Ala., Charlottesville, Va., and Southern Delaware before making Maryland her home.
