On August 9, 2014, via Twitter, Elzie learned of Brown's death and that his body was left for hours in the street a short distance from her own childhood home.
[1] She became involved in protests[4] and in organizing volunteers and donations, as well as in continuing to document events;[5] in his book They Can't Kill Us All, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery described Elzie as "the most prominent of the citizen journalists telling the story of Ferguson.
[7][8] The Los Angeles Times has named Elzie to its list of "The new civil rights leaders: Emerging voices in the 21st century."
The New York Times profiled Elzie and McKesson as leaders of the group that built "the nation's first 21st-century civil rights movement.
She has been a field organizer for Amnesty International, and has volunteered with a girls' group called the Sophia Project in St.