Michael John Gerson was an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Meet Dawn Gerson

Michael Gerson’s wife  Dawn, was born in South Korea. She was adopted by an American family when she was six years old and raised in the Midwestern United States. The couple, who met in high school, have two sons and reside in Northern Virginia.

Gerson was raised in an Evangelical Christian family in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Westminster Christian Academy for high school. His paternal grandfather was Jewish. He attended Georgetown University for a year and then transferred to Wheaton College in Illinois, graduating in 1986

Gerson suffered from major depressive disorder and was hospitalized at least once due to the disease.

Gerson was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2013. He died from cancer at a hospital in Washington, D.C. on November 17, 2022, aged 58