Liz was previously the associate director of The Forests Dialogue (TFD), bringing her training in political ecology and qualitative research to foster collaborative learning and problem solving. In this role, she designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues at multiple scales, including landscape dialogue processes in Brazil, Finland, Ghana, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Liz holds a dual position at Yale School of the Environment, where she is also the program director of the Success Lab, a collaborative learning-research hub with a mission to understand the role of environmental non-governmental organizations in driving environmental and social change at community and local levels. She holds a Master’s of Environmental Science from the Yale School of the Environment.