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Elizabeth Broadbent

Columbia
As seen in: ADDitude Magazine, Yahoo Life, HuffPost, The Washington Post, ABC News, MDPI, Taylor & Francis Online, TODAY, U.S. News and World Report, ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, Miami Herald and
Covers:  parenting, race, social justice issues, politics, depression and other mental health issues.
Doesn't Cover: online poker!
Ink Vine (Undertaker Books); Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press 2025) Ninety-Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books 2024) Breaking Neverland (Sley House 2026), etc

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Elizabeth Broadbent’s Biography

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I attended the University of South Carolina, graduating in 2003 Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in English. During my undergrad, I founded The Letter Olive, a literary magazine still published by Carolina students today. I continued at Carolina for an MFA in fiction and most of a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric. During this time I tutored underprivileged children in writing at Hyatt Park Elementary and ran Split P Soup, an organization that teaches poetry and prose to children from kindergarten to …

Elizabeth Broadbent’s Journalist Portfolio

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My Breasts, My Choice: Why I'm Nursing My Three-Year-Old

My Breasts, My Choice: Why I'm Nursing My Three-Year-Old

At three years old, my middle son wakes up as a different animal every morning. He tells me which by calling …

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Helicopter Moms, You're Ruining It For Everyone Else

Helicopter Moms, You're Ruining It For Everyone Else

She's standing there under my 3-year-old, arms aloft like she's at church waiting for God to drop a truth bom…

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9 Cringeworthy Signs You're WAY Too Obsessed With Your Kid

9 Cringeworthy Signs You're WAY Too Obsessed With Your Kid

It's great that you want to raise your family with proper values, but it's not okay when you obsess over your…

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Turns Out, I'm Not OK With My Postpartum Body

Turns Out, I'm Not OK With My Postpartum Body

When my first son was born, I made a rookie mistake: I brought my pre-pregnancy jeans to wear home from the h…

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What Normal Looks Like

What Normal Looks Like

"Oh, I can't have you over," other moms say. "My house is a mess." As soon as I arrive for a playdate, before…

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A Mother's White Privilege

A Mother's White Privilege

As the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri show us, America's racial tensions didn't disappear when George W…

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Articles

Five Southern Gothic Books about Generational Trauma That You (Probably) Haven’t Read - Reactor

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By Elizabeth Broadbent
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Social obligation and an ex-boyfriend once landed me at a lineage society dinner in Charleston, South Carolina. The exact association doesn’t matter; pick one, and you’re probably right. Beneath stern portraits of Confederate generals with epic facial hair, white people ate rubbery chicken and celebrated the fictions they willed into history. Anyone with money and connections enough to join that particular society owed both to the blood and sweat of enslaved people. No one acknowledged it.
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Empathetic Conversational Agents: Utilizing Neural and Physiological Signals for Enhanced Empathetic Interactions

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By Kate Loveys, Elizabeth Broadbent, Nastaran Saffaryazdi, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran
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?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom. Abstract Conversational agents (CAs) are transforming human-computer interaction, evolving from text-based chatbots to digital humans (DHs) capable of rich emotional expression.
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7 Holiday Moments We Forget to Capture—but Shouldn’t

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By Elizabeth Broadbent
| Miami Herald Verified
Edited by Tracy Yochum, McClatchy Commerce SPONSORED CONTENT is content paid for by a partner. The McClatchy Commerce Content team, which is independent from our newsroom, oversees this content. The holiday season is full of Kodak moments. There’s the perfectly color-coordinated family card. Pics of the kids visiting winter wonderlands, holiday markets, extended relatives, and the Big Guy in red.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

staff writer for City Moms blog

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes!

How is social media changing news?

My making it quicker and more immediate, and making any gaffes viral.
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