Eliza Billingham covers city issues for the Inlander. She first joined the paper as a staff food writer in 2023, then switched over to the news team in 2024. Since then, she's covered the closing of Spokane's largest homeless shelter, the city's shifting approach to neighborhood policing, and solutions to the rent crisis facing manufactured housing communities.
Eliza is a Chicago suburb native and unapologetic (read: very apologetic) Midwesterner. She has undergraduate degrees in Christian theology and ancient languages, as well as a master's degree in journalism from Boston University. While at BU, she was a fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting through its Campus Consortium program. She reported from Hanoi, Vietnam, where she produced a multimedia package about an illegal Christian drug rehabilitation center outside the city. Before moving to Spokane, she was an editorial fellow with American Public Media, where she helped investigative reporter Emily Hanford create two bonus episodes of her award winning series Sold a Story, a podcast exploring the decline of child literacy across the country.
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