ELIZABETH LLORENTE

Elizabeth Llorente is a senior writer for The Record, where she has covered immigration since 1994. Her many distinctions include the George Polk Award and the New Jersey Journalist of the Year. Llorente’s work has become a national model for race and ethnicity reporting, earning her the 2004 Career Achievement Award by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2003, the Annenberg Institute of the University of Southern California named her one of the country’s top five race and ethnicity writers, and made her an Expert Fellow. ABC-TV’s Nightline featured Llorente and “A Tale of Two Cultures,” her 1998 series on ethnic relations in a small New Jersey town. She has won top honors from the New Jersey Press Association, New York’s Deadline Club and the New York Society of the Silurians.