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Liz Goodwin

2007-2008

Undergraduate Columns

On a hot September day in 2004, President Lawrence H. Summers was addressing the large group of newly arrived freshmen and their parents about…
I remember many things from my cousin’s wedding—my poofy bridesmaid’s dress, the humidity, how pretty the small church looked…
I realized that college was over when I opened up the large diploma case to show my family the product of four years’ labor and found…

Liz Goodwin ’08, returning to her Texas roots, writes about immigration and politics for Yahoo News. She’s traveled to the Mexican border to write about the complications of immigration enforcement and to primary states to stalk Rick Perry. After graduation, she moved to Costa Rica and wrote for an English-language newspaper before moving to New York to work for the Daily Beast as an assistant editor. She now lives in Brooklyn and really wants a dog. She posts when she can on her website.

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