Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Her three-part series, “An Imam in America,” was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, Ms. Elliott published “Invisible Child,” a five-part series that chronicled the life of an 11-year-old homeless girl, winning the George Polk award for local reporting and the Scripps Howard award for human interest reporting. Ms. Elliott has reported extensively on Islam in a post-9/11 America and wrote in-depth stories on the black-immigrant divide, the radicalization of Somalis in Minneapolis, and the rise of the anti-shariah movement. One of her cover stories for The New York Times Magazine on Moroccan suicide bombers was a finalist for the 2008 National Magazine Award. Ms. Elliott has received honors from the Overseas Press Club, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York Press Club. Her work has been featured in “Best Newspaper Writing” and “Islam for Journalists: A Primer on Covering Muslim American Communities in America.” Ms. Elliott was raised in Washington, D.C., by a Chilean mother and an American father. A graduate of Occidental College, she graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1999, where she was class valedictorian. Before joining The Times, Ms. Elliott spent three years as a reporter at the Miami Herald. She and her husband, Tim Golden, live with their two daughters in New York City.