Ellie Kaufman

Bio

Ellie is a branded content staff writer at Mic. She previously worked at The Huffington Post and graduated from The College of William and Mary.

Listen — if only for a moment — to the underground sound of your daily commute

By Ellie Kaufman

Original photos by Joshua Kristal New Yorkers hustle hard. We're constantly in motion. We commute long distances to work even longer hours. We navigate furious crowds and infuriating obstacles every day. And for those of us who routinely ride the…

Here's why you should study abroad now more than ever

By Ellie Kaufman

In 2015, a record number of Americans took to the skies for international travel destinations. According to the National Travel & Tourism Office, international travel by U.S. citizens increased by 7.7% last year. And with the U.S. State Department…

The arts space of the future has already broken ground

By Ellie Kaufman

For anyone who's seen Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, the 1982 film's depiction of a perpetually dark and rainy post-apocalyptic Los Angeles didn't exactly inspire us to look forward to the year 2019. Now that 2019 is just three years away, a radically…

Here's what you need to know before you book that flight to Cuba

By Ellie Kaufman

On August 31, JetBlue Airlines flew from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, Cuba, making history as the first commercial flight to land in the island nation 90 miles south of the U.S. since the 1960s. The flight was more than 50 years in the…

Here’s how the beef industry is putting sustainability on the menu

By Ellie Kaufman

Beef is all-American. It's one of the main sources of protein and the key ingredient in one of the most American foods on the global menu: the hamburger. The U.S. consumed 24.8 billion pounds of beef in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of…

5 ways to throw an authentic Australian barbecue for Labor Day

By Ellie Kaufman

A Labor Day weekend barbecue is the proper way to say goodbye to a sweet, sultry summer. But before you go grab the traditional hot dogs and hamburgers for your Labor Day spread, consider switching up your routine with some advice from the Aussies,…

This travel app helps you hook up with fellow travelers — but not in the way you’d expect

By Ellie Kaufman

One of the best ways to experience a foreign destination is meeting locals who can show you what it's like to live there and finding other travelers to go exploring with. In the pre-smartphone years, you had to rely on spontaneity and the kindness…

HBO's 'The Night Of' takes on just how racially charged the criminal justice system is

By Ellie Kaufman

Theoretically, there shouldn't be racial bias in the U.S. justice system. Yet as has been proven time and time again, on both macro and micro levels, racism is everywhere in our courts. HBO's new crime drama, The Night Of, is tackling that bias…

This is What Happened When These Couples Played the 36 Questions Game

By Ellie Kaufman

You think you know your significant other, so put it to the test. In January 2015, a set of questions surfaced from an old science experiment to see whether it was possible to make two people fall in love. Part of a study by Arthur Aron (and…

7 People Under 35 Who Inspire Us to Reconsider the Age Requirement for President

By Ellie Kaufman

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 It's there in the Constitution that the Framers, in their 18th-century wisdom, established the requirements of eligibility to be president of the United States: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen…