Elizabeth Green is the founder and chief executive officer of Civic News Company and the publisher of nonprofit newsrooms Chalkbeat and Votebeat. In 2014, she co-founded Chalkbeat, which publishes local, independent, high-impact journalism about public education. Since its launch, Chalkbeat’s reporting has spurred changes in education funding, legislation, policy, and practice and is regularly cited and republished in dozens of other outlets. In October 2020, Green and the Chalkbeat team launched Votebeat, a pop-up newsroom designed to provide independent, nonpartisan coverage of election integrity. After its success, Votebeat launched as a permanent newsroom in 2022, covering four states. In 2019, Green also co-founded the American Journalism Project, the first venture philanthropy firm dedicated to local news, and served as the chair of its board of directors for its first two years. Her book, Building a Better Teacher, was a New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2014.