I got fired while in cancer treatment. I thought it was a death sentence, but it led me to my dream job.
Alex George was fired from her TV news job while undergoing cancer treatment. Now, she has her dream job: baking for social media.
Elizabeth (Liz) Casolo is a Newsletters and Audience Fellow at Business Insider. She works on the daily editions of Business Insider Today, edits the homepage, and presses the scary button to send some of your app push alerts.
Liz previously worked in TV news production at CNN. She covered travel business at Skift, contributing to the daily newsletter and podcast. Liz also covered health at Health News Illinois and Wisconsin Health News. In 2024, Liz's team won the Reynolds Journalism Institute Student Innovation Competition.
She graduated from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism with majors in journalism and global health studies and a minor in data science.