New York Times investigative reporter Andrea Elliott will join the Russell Sage Foundation as a visiting journalist in residence for the period from April 7 through August 15, 2014.

In December 2013, the New York Times published Elliott’s groundbreaking five-part series, “Invisible Child,” which chronicled the life of an eleven-year-old homeless girl named Dasani, whose family of ten occupied a single room in a decrepit, city-run shelter in Brooklyn. So far this year, her project has received a George Polk award and a Scripps Howard award.

Elliott will be spending her time in residence at RSF writing a book based on these articles. She will examine the family’s story over three generations, illuminating the broader socioeconomic forces and policy dilemmas that shape the experiences of poor children growing up on the margins of a new Gilded Age.

A previous series by Elliott for the Times, “An Imam in America,” was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.