Elissa Nadworny

Email: elissa.nadworny@northwestern.edu

Elissa Nadworny is an NPR correspondent who has covered education, reproductive rights and abortion and international conflict, with a special focus on children and families. 

She has spent several months in Ukraine covering the war with Russia and in Israel, covering the war with Hamas and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

She guest hosts NPR radio shows such as All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and special election coverage.

In 2023, she tracked down a classroom of kindergarteners from eastern Ukraine, displaced by the war. The project took eight months, spanned multiple countries and continents, and told the story of children and families dealing with the trauma, loss, and fear that conflict brings.

Her work has won awards including a James Beard Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in innovation, a Scripps Howard Awards for excellence in narrative storytelling and several Gracie Awards.

She's a Livingston Award finalist for a story about college students getting their degrees from inside a state prison.