Elise Kaplan is the assistant editor for investigations and special projects at City Desk.

Elise Kaplan has been reporting in and around Albuquerque for about a decade. After graduating from the University of New Mexico, she wrote for the Weekly Alibi and the Mountain View Telegraph before joining the Albuquerque Journal in 2014 to cover crime and the criminal justice system. For the past several years her main focus has been on the court-mandated reforms of the police department and ongoing crises at the county jail. She has also reported for Searchlight New Mexico as an investigative reporter covering education.