Eliz­a­beth Bad­de­ley grad­u­at­ed from the School of Visu­al Arts in New York City with a degree in Illus­tra­tion as Visu­al Essay. She is no stranger to biogra­phies of pow­er­ful women and has illus­trat­ed two pic­ture books: A Woman in the House (and Sen­ate) and Women Who Broke the Rules: Mary Todd Lincoln.