Dear RSF:

Our first presentation in our seminar series will be Guest Speaker Andrea Elliott on Wednesday, September 29 by at 11:00. Please join us then in the library or via Zoom.

Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times, currently on leave writing a book about child poverty for Penguin Random House. Since joining The Times in 2003, Ms. Elliott has specialized in long-form, immersive journalism projects. Her three-part series, “An Imam in America,” was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Her 2013 series, “Invisible Child,” chronicled the life of an 11-year-old homeless girl, winning a George Polk award, among other honors, and prompting city officials to remove more than 400 children from substandard homeless shelters. She was a Visiting Journalist at RSF in 2016.

Elliott’s work has examined the radicalization of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis and the rise of the anti-Shariah movement. Her cover stories for The New York Times Magazine include profiles of a young jihadist from Alabama, a controversial preacher trained at Yale, and a special report on Moroccan suicide bombers that won an Overseas Press Club award and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Elliott came to The Times from The Miami Herald, where she spent three years as a reporter after graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1999. She was raised in Washington by a Chilean immigrant mother and an American father.