Liz is the Senior Fellow of Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.

As Senior Fellow, Liz is a subject matter expert of applied training in partnership and community collaboration competencies. She is experienced in curriculum design, instruction, facilitation, training needs assessments and course evaluations.

Liz is one of the founders of the Academy and the Managing by Network and Collaborative Conservation: Partnerships in Practice courses.

For 40 years, Liz has worn many conservation hats: national park ranger, vice president of development and communications, director of conservation boards, trainer, facilitator, and consultant to nonprofit, private-sector and public agencies in the areas of partnerships, strategic and business planning, capital campaigns, planned giving, grant-writing, conservation finance, public engagement, government relations and training.

She has enjoyed the pleasure of bringing together internal teams to meet and exceed strategic, tactical, and operational goals of the public agencies and nonprofits that she represented. Early in her career, she began to expand her professional skillset to focus on creating and supporting partnerships essential to the vision, mission and goals of these organizations.

In addition to the Academy, she has held senior management positions with the National Park Service, the University of Idaho, The Conservation Fund, and the National and Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

She has served as a consultant to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Boone and Crockett Club, the Friends of the Elkhorn Ranch, National Forest Foundation, the National Park Foundation, the National Museum of Forest Service History, the Forest History Society, and SeaWorld.

She has served on the boards of Earth Share, Equine Land Conservation Resource, the Moscow, Latah County United Way and the Latah Alliance on Mental Illness.

She has served as a consultant in the areas of facilitation, curriculum design and teaching on behalf of the DOI Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution; NPS, National Heritage Areas; NPS, Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program; NPS, National Capital Area; USDA Partnership Office; and USDA FS Partnership Office.

She has taught at the USFWS National Conservation Training Center, BLM National Training Center, and NPS Mather Training Center, and the EPA National Urban Waters Federal Partnerships Workshop, USACE CPCX Dam and Levee Safety Coaching Call Series, the Land Trust Alliance, Public Lands Alliance,  and National Association for Interpretation conferences.

She earned a B.A. with honors in History and Anthropology and M.A. in American Studies from The College of William and Mary. She resides in Sterling, Virginia with her husband, Dwight.