Elizabeth Crisp is a reporter based in Washington, DC. Crisp earned her B.A. in communications with a concentration in journalism from Mississippi State University, where she served as editor-in-chief for the campus newspaper, The Reflector. She then remained in Mississippi to cover state politics for The Clairion-Ledger and then for USA Today.
Crisp joined The Advocate newspaper in 2013 to cover the state capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2019, she was reassigned to be The Advocate’s Washington, DC correspondent, and went on to assume the same position at Newsweek one year later. Crisp now works for The Hill as a politics and newsletter reporter.