Elizabeth MacBride is a journalist, author, and entrepreneur whose reporting and commentary on finance, innovation, and social justice have reached millions of readers worldwide. She is the co-author of three books, including the national bestseller Capital Evolution (BenBella, 2025), which looks at the future of capitalism with an optimistic lens; The New Builders (Wiley, 2021), which reshaped how policymakers understand entrepreneurship in America and informed $250B in U.S. pandemic-era aid; The Little Book of Robo Investing (Wiley, 2024), which draws on her experience at Wealthfront to explain how technology is transforming personal finance.Her work has long advocated for people who are underrepresented in the global economy because of structural barriers and social norms. She has consulted for the World Bank and been a fellow at MIT and Georgetown universities.
As a reporter and editor, Elizabeth has broken stories and covered issues for outlets including The New York Times, Quartz, Forbes, MIT Tech Review, the Atlantic, and the BBC. She has reported everywhere from the Arkansas Delta and the panhandle of Idaho to Silicon Valley and Wall Street, as well as from conflict and post-conflict zones, including Kenya, Cambodia, the West Bank, and Gaza. Most recently, she has focused on narrative change and information disorder, examining how these forces shape the economy.
Elizabeth is a graduate of Johns Hopkins SAIS. She’s a single mother of two children and lives in Alexandria, Va.
