Elizabeth Newhouse

Elizabeth Newhouse associate

Latin America Rights & Security: Cuba Project

Email: enewhouse@ciponline.org
Phone: (202) 337 - 6371

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Raised in Cuba, Elizabeth Newhouse has been working at CIP for three years, accompanying delegations to Cuba and writing reports on Cuba’s disaster management and race relations and on U.S.-Cuba policy and environmental cooperation. In 2012 she organized a conference in Washington on oil drilling off Cuba’s coast and the potential for a spill, and in Miami on Cuban Americans and the vote. Earlier she worked at the National Geographic as an editor, writer, and publisher. As director of travel publishing in the book division, she managed a $9 million multipart program that produced more than 30 titles a year on travel, culture, history, nature, and adventure. In addition, she has served as a lecturer on Cuban history, politics, culture, and U.S.-Cuba relations on organized tours to the island for the National Geographic Society and other organizations. In 2002-2003 Newhouse was a member of the Cuba Advisory Group, a blue-ribbon committee established by the Center for National Policy to advocate for negotiating an end to the trade embargo. Her book, Cuba (National Geographic 1999), was cited by the Los Angeles Times for its “clear prose and scholarly command of Cuba’s history.”