Elizabeth Méndez Berry's work has appeared in the Washington Post,  Vibe, the 
Village Voice, Smithsonian, and Time, among many others. She has written about
topics from music to immigration to Mexican wrestling.  "Love Hurts," her
investigative article on domestic violence in the hip hop  industry, won ASCAP's 
2006 Deems Taylor award for music reporting. The  article was also included in Da 
Capo's Best Music Writing anthology, as was  her essay on Jay-Z's premature 
retirement, "The Last Hustle." In 2008, she  won the Columbia Journalism School's 
Hechinger award for best education coverage for her piece on  the death of a 
Bronx high school.    

Méndez Berry has been interviewed about music and culture by NPR, NBC, CBC,  
CNN en español, and many more. Her writing has been included on syllabi at  
Brown, Columbia and her alma mater the University of Toronto, and she has 
lectured at Duke University, Fordham and Hunter College. She's also taught 
journalism to grade school students around New York City. She is an adjunct
professor at NYU's Clive Davis School of  Recorded Music, where she teaches 
music journalism. Born and raised in Toronto, she now lives in  Queens, New 
York and pines for socialized health care. She has a masters in  journalism from 
Columbia.