About Elizabeth Baier

Elizabeth Baier is taking a break from newspapers to work as a Fellowship Reporter at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul. She worked as a staff writer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 2005 to 2008, covering local government, general assignments, crime, and minority issues. 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 and began learning how to record, edit and produce audio and video for radio and the Internet. She enjoys adventure travel, photography, maps, camping, sudoku, and organizing her favorites on del.icio.us.