Elizabeth is a New Jersey-based journalist focusing on prisons, jails, the registry, and wrongful convictions.

 

Elizabeth is a reporter for The Appeal. Her work has been published in The Nation, New York Focus, and TruthOut.

She writes on prison conditions, the sex offender registry, wrongful convictions, and extreme sentences for young people. Partnering with CoLAB Arts, she has written two interview-based plays, which have been performed in the Northeast—“Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison” and “Banished: A Family on the Sex Offender Registry.” She is the recipient, with journalist Juan Moreno Haines, of the 2020 California Journalism Awards Print Contest. They were awarded first place for At San Quentin, Overcrowding Laid The Groundwork For An Explosive COVID-19 Outbreak, in the category: Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Fallout, weeklies, circulation 25,0001 and over.

Elizabeth worked to free wrongfully convicted people as a Case Analyst in the Intake and Evaluation Department at the Innocence Project; her work was instrumental in several exonerations.

She’s a feminist, socialist, and anti-fascist (in no particular order.) Elizabeth has an encyclopedic knowledge of Beverly Hills, 90210 (the original). She lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.