A journalistic polymath, Elizabeth Weil has covered subjects ranging from Venus Williams and Kamala Harris to marriage and parenting and endurance sports. She is currently a writer at New York magazine, where she published some of the most talked-about stories of the past two years, including profiles of the political and cultural lightning rods Sam Altman and Miriam Adelson, and a heart-rending account of a mother and son who moved off the grid, only to meet disaster. Before that, Weil covered California and the climate crisis for ProPublica, and won an Emmy for her work on the 2022 documentary Unlivable Oasis, about the effects of climate change on the disenfranchised. Before that, she was a longtime writer for The New York Times Magazine. Weil is also the author of two critically acclaimed nonfiction books, No Cheating, No Dying, and the New York Times bestseller The Girl Who Smiled Beads, written with Clemantine Wamariya, who as a young girl survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994.