Elizabeth Freeland received her PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins in 1996. Her dissertation was in the area of computational nanotribology (friction). She spent several years teaching physics part-time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago while raising two small children. Concurrently, she retrained in the area of computational lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with members of the theory group at Fermilab outside of Chicago. Recently she has been doing research full-time as a recipient of an American Association of University Women's American Fellowship in 2005-06 and the APS Blewett Scholarhip in 2006-07. She has spent much time researching and discussing career-break issues (see her webpage).. She has written two articles about returning to research: "Getting Back into Research: Some Thoughts and Advice on Career Breaks in Physics" (2004) and "My Career Break" (2006). Both appeared in The Gazette, a publication of the American Physical Society.