The New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) hired Elizabeth Benn as their director of MLB operations, making her the highest-ranking woman to hold a baseball operations role in the franchise's history.
Benn, who graduated from the University of Toronto in 2015 and earned a Master in Philosophy at the Columbia University, New York, in 2017, was serving as MLB's Senior Coordinator, Baseball Operations.
Her career at MLB started as a labour relations intern in 2017. She became the Coordinator, Labor Relations, Diversity &Inclusion and Baseball Development in 2018 and Senior Coordinator, Baseball Operations in February 2020.
Benn writes on her Instagram account: "I like art, philosophy, literature, culture (broadly), food, fitness, and social progress. Sometimes I play baseball."
She is actually a pitcher and in 2016 became the first woman to play in the New York City Metro Baseball League, an adult amateur league
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