Elizabeth Arroyo

Elizabeth Arroyo (Leah) joined NEH after working as a writer/editor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She previously worked at the American Alliance of Museums, where she was a senior editor, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, where she was the first grant writer and helped manage seminars and applications. She has also taught courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction and on southern, African-American, and women’s history at Trinity and Carleton Colleges and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.