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Elizabeth switched gears from newsprint to radio waves in 2008 to work as a multi-platform general assignment reporter at Minnesota Public Radio. She files stories for MPR's website, provides audio content for radio newscasts and works on features for the radio. From 2005 to 2008, she worked in Fort Lauderdale, Fl as a staff writer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Prior to that, she spent three years working as a part-time reporter at the Miami Herald, where she covered local news, politics, and development in several Miami-Dade County municipalities. She also worked at the Latin Bureau of the Voice of America in Washington D.C. in 2002. In 2004, she was awarded a yearlong fellowship to Santiago, Chile, where studied the changing role of the armed forces vis-à-vis the human rights policies of Chile and Argentina. She received a B.S. in journalism and international relations from the University of Miami in 2003 and a certificate in contemporary Latin American Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago in 2004. In 2006, she fell in love with multimedia storytelling, which is one of the reasons why she landed in public radio. When she's not looking for a good story, she enjoys traveling, photography and playing sudoku. She can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn. |
