She currently manages the Global Fight for Democracy oral history project and previously managed the Obama Presidency Oral History. Prior to joining Incite in 2019, she spent two years as Project Coordinator for the Muslims in Brooklyn Public History Project at the Center for Brooklyn History (formerly Brooklyn Historical Society).
From 2015 to 2019, Liz was the Oral History Program Manager for the New York Preservation Archive Project (NYPAP), where she led several oral history initiatives on the history of the preservation movement in New York City. As a freelance oral historian and personal historian, from 2010 to 2015, she worked with a variety of clients, including the Washington Department of Commerce in 2013 and the University of Arizona Steward Observatory in 2012.
She is a member of the Oral History Association's (OHA) task force on Oral History and the Law; she was a founding co-chair of the OHA Advocacy Committee; and she was a member of the 2018 OHA task force on Principles & Best Practices. Liz received an MA in Oral History from Columbia in 2015 and a BA in Narrative Arts from Oberlin College in 2009.
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