Elena Brown is a jet-setting freelancer with more than a decade as a flight attendant. Her articles have been in The Denver Post, the Denver Business Journal, The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, Westword, 5280 and Denver magazine. She won a regional Mark of Excellence Award for in-depth reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and received the Colorado Press Association Scholarship. She completed a fellowship at the Academy for Alternative Journalism summer residency program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The Colorado native began her school career at Metropolitan State College of Denver.
