 She went on to major in English at the University of Pennsylvania where she won the Thouron Award in her junior year.Copeland's freelance work has included a number of pieces on gender and politics for "Slate", a piece on product placement for New York, and for Cosmo, an in-depth recounting of a gruesome murder in a D.C.-area lululemon store.For "Style", the daily features section of the "Washington Post", Copeland covered the 2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and the 2008 presidential election.