Elana Meyers is a documentary editor from New York City. In 2020, she graduated from Northwestern’s Documentary Media MFA, with a short film that was awarded the Carole Fielding Award and the Northwestern Graduate Research Grant. She worked as the Lead Assistant Editor on season 2 of Hulu’s Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, a series about the food and culture in immigrant communities around the U.S. She is currently editing the feature, No One Asked You, about Lizz Winsted, co-founder of the Daily Show, who has been on the forefront of abortion activism since 2012.

 

Elana is drawn to films that are politically driven and celebrate culture, history, and social movements that often go under-reported.