Rachel Cieri Mull is The Baltimore Banner’s education editor. She returned to Baltimore after three years as a senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C. Previously, she was the senior features editor at The Baltimore Sun, where she managed a portfolio of magazines and special sections that earned national awards from the Society for Features Journalism. Mull began her career at SmartCEO Media, a now-defunct business magazine publisher based in Baltimore, and worked her way up to managing editor. She grew up in Howard County and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Elon University.