Brie Zeltner joined The Plain Dealer in 2007 after a year-long internship at the paper and reports on the health effects of poverty on children, families and the greater Northeast Ohio community. In 2015, Zeltner and colleague Rachel Dissell co-reported “Toxic Neglect,” an in-depth series that examined the unsolved crisis of lead poisoning in Cleveland. Zeltner has written extensively on health issues that disproportionately affect Cleveland’s poor and minority children, including infant mortality, asthma, and substandard housing. In 2015, she received the New York Academy of Medicine’s inaugural Urban Journalism award. Zeltner is a Cleveland native and resident, and graduate of Dartmouth College.