Lizzie Presser, Author at Type Investigations

Lizzie Presser

Lizzie Presser is a contributing reporter at ProPublica. Her writing on social policy, immigration, and work has appeared in The California Sunday Magazine, This American Life, The Guardian, and others. Her reporting has received awards from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Newswomen's Club of New York, among others, and her story Below Deck was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the reporting category and a Livingston Award in international reporting in 2018.

Investigations

Safe House

An underground network of Latina women have opened their homes to abused immigrant women.

“Whatever’s Your Darkest Question, You Can Ask Me.”

A secret network of women working to provide home abortions.

Losing Gloria

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

Perder a Gloria

Después de que su madre fuera deportada a México, los hermanos Marin se enfrentaron a una decisión imposible: quedarse o irse.

Below Deck

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.

The Backstories

The Backstory: Lizzie Presser and Diàna Markosian

Reporter Lizzie Presser and photographer Diàna Markosian discuss their collaboration in telling the story of the Marin siblings who faced an impossible choice once their mother was deported: stay in their home country or go with her to Mexico.