Elizabeth Baier is a digital news editor at North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC). Previously, she was a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio, where she covered southeastern Minnesota and parts of Iowa and Wisconsin. She reported on a wide-range of topics, from rural and agricultural issues to education and immigration. Baier joined MPR in June 2008 after six years of writing for newspapers, including the South Florida Sun Sentinel and The Miami Herald. She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international relations from the University of Miami and a certificate in contemporary Latin American studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. In 2004, she was awarded a yearlong Inter-American Press Association fellowship. 

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Lessons learned: Rural immigrants, food and health in Minnesota

<p>Latinos are the fastest-growing minority group in Minnesota. Tens of thousands of mostly-Mexican immigrants have settled in the state in the last decade, and much of that growth has happened outside of the Twin Cities in smaller communities like Rochester, Worthington and Faribault.</p>

Mayo, Minn. communities targeting immigrant health

Mayo, Minn. communities targeting immigrant health

<p>In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, researchers at the Mayo Clinic are working with more than a dozen community organizations to keep immigrants and refugees from developing common diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.</p>

Latino families battling childhood obesity

Latino families battling childhood obesity

<p>Inside a crumbling trailer in Northfield, Samantha Castro Flores shows off a closet bursting with clothes. Sometimes she can't find a size of pants that fits.</p>

For Latino immigrants, good health hard to maintain

For Latino immigrants, good health hard to maintain

<p>Walk into the kitchen of Eugenia Delgado's home in Faribault, and you'll see a dinnertime battle about to play out. When Delgado insists that her son eat some vegetables, he tells her he doesn't want broccoli.</p>

Rural immigrants, food and health in Minnesota

<p>With the help of a National Health Journalism fellowship, I will be working on a series of stories that focus on food and immigrants in rural Minnesota. In particular, the stories will examine the social, economic, cultural and psychological factors influencing food consumption practices among Minnesota’s newest rural immigrant communities.</p>