My name is Elisabeth Greenberg and I am American. My lineage, however, includes two German grandparents, both of whom were Holocaust survivors, as well as an English grandfather and an American grandmother whose personal genealogy traces back to a drummer boy in the Civil War. My mother and father were raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn respectively, and although I have lived in a pampered suburb of New Jersey for most of my life, I consider myself a seasoned New Yorker.

As of now I plan to double major in journalism and political science while triple minoring in Chinese, film and New York City studies. I am however begrudgingly aware that my plans for the future may change drastically between now and May of 2014.

I love playing table tennis, finding ways to express myself artistically through both image and word, traveling and interacting with people around me. Lastly, my favorite words are polydimethylsiloxane and zugzwang.