Elizabeth Stein

Elizabeth Stein is a doctoral student in political science at UCLA. Her dissertation is titled Leading the Way: The Media and the Struggle for Democracy. Stein has worked in corporate public relations, sports marketing and as a freelance writer and editor. In 2004-2005, she conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Chile as a Fulbright scholar. Stein received her M.S. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1997 and her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stein’s research at the Shorenstein Center examined political activists’ use of the media to gauge government tolerance and assess the risk of participation in anti-regime activities amid authoritarian rule.