Born on December 14, 1972, Andrea Elliott is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, writer, and university teacher. She serves as a staff writer for The New York Times, where she has produced groundbreaking investigative reporting on religion, immigration, national security, poverty, and social issues. In 2007, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her three-part series on Sheik Reda Shata, an Egyptian-born imam in Brooklyn, New York, exploring themes of faith, identity, and post-9/11 America, which contributed to her reputation in covering religion and national security, including a profile on David Yerushalmi. Elliott made history as the first woman to win Pulitzer Prizes in both Journalism and Letters. In 2022, she received the Pulitzer for General Nonfiction for her book 'Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,' which chronicles the life of Dasani, a homeless girl in New York City, based on her eight-year reporting for the Times. She also teaches journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, mentoring the next generation of reporters, and is widely recognized for her empathetic yet rigorous long-form journalism.