Elizabeth Troolin graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2012 and moved to Cartagena, Colombia, as a Fulbright Scholar. She has spent the past three years in Bogotá, where she currently works as a reporting specialist with the International Organization for Migration. Troolin has also lived in Spain and Venezuela and has strong experience researching and working hands-on with transitional justice, peacebuilding, and conflict victim and refugee rights.