Tom Philp has been an editorial board member at The Sacramento Bee since 1997. An associate editor, he writes editorials, columns and Sunday Forum section articles about regional planning, water use issues, agriculture, forestry, energy, health care and telecommunications. Before joining the editorial board, Philp was a staff writer in The Bee's newsroom for five years, covering a variety of subjects, including medicine. He has won a number of awards, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Philp is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He lives in Carmichael, California, with wife and their children, Max and Charlotte.