Elizabeth Segal is a free-lance radio, print and TV journalist living in Santa Monica, California. She has appeared on The World and Which Way, LA? and has produced TV programming for PBS. She's also been published in TheDailyBeast.com, Salon.com, the LA Times, Seattle's The Stranger Weekly, and others.
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