eliza barclay

Eliza Barclay is a reporter and producer for NPR, covering food and health on the web and occasionally the air. Before she came to NPR’s science desk,  she covered the environment, immigration, economic development, and international politics. From 2004 to 2007 she was based in Mexico City, first as a correspondent for United Press International and then as a freelancer. She has also reported from East Africa and East Asia. She is fluent in Spanish and can just squeak by in Portuguese. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, FORTUNE, National Geographic News, The Lancet and several other publications. Her radio work has aired on NPR and PRI’s The World. She has received fellowships from the International Reporting Project and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and has trained and mentored journalists on covering HIV/AIDS, swine flu, and climate change  with the media development organizations Internews, International Center for Journalists, and the Global Press Institute. In 2009, she was the recipient of an Innovations Grant from the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to study and write about rising meat consumption in China. She has a B.S. with honors from the University of California-Berkeley and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She can be reached at elizabarclay at gmail dot com or on Twitter at @elizabarclay.