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.