Elizabeth Schiffman is a junior Journalism major at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has served as an editor for both the online and print incarnations of her campus magazine.

Although her work has appeared in numerous local and national publications, she is most known for her investigative reporting probing issues of race, poverty and privacy in Chicago. She has also flexed her mobile reporting muscle working for a newswire service in Washington, where she caught the political bug.

In addition to journalism and academics, Elizabeth heads up an independent record label, YRC Music. You can follow her on Twitter or on her website.