Elizabeth Wolfe is a reporter for CNN, covering national breaking news, gender and sexuality in the US. Based in Los Angeles, her coverage has spanned almost every aspect of American life, including extreme weather, gun violence, immigration and crime.

Elizabeth’s feature reporting examines how public policy and shifting cultural understandings of sex and gender impact LGBTQ people’s lives. That work has focused on book bans, challenges to healthcare for transgender youth, debates over trans athletes’ participation in sports and efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to dismiss transgender and nonbinary troops.

Elizabeth joined CNN as an intern in 2019 and soon became a researcher for the network’s editorial oversight team, FactCheck. There, she helped vet some of CNN’s most sensitive stories, including sifting through thousands of leaked whistleblower documents as part of the team behind the 2021 “Facebook Papers” reporting. She also supported CNN’s live fact-checking team during the 2020 presidential election.

Prior to CNN, she was a freelance arts and style writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.