Liz Futrell’s love of storytelling was sparked when, as a volunteer tutor at Chicago’s Cook County Jail in college, she worked with an incarcerated man writing his memoir. She taught English in the US and overseas before earning an MSPH from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She has since worked as a writer, oral historian and storyteller focused on global health and human rights. At Johns Hopkins University, she co-founded and led a global initiative to document the stories of hundreds of people working to expand access to sexual and reproductive health and rights around the world, facilitating storytelling workshops on four continents. For this work, she was named a 120 Under 40 winner by the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute of Population and Reproductive Health. Later as director of the Ci3 Transmedia Story Lab at the University of Chicago, she helped provide platforms, including the Frankly. podcast, that centered the experiences of young people marginalized by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation. Liz is a senior writer at Pathfinder International and is co-producer of the Death Penalty Project.