Liz is a co-founder of Partners for Dignity & Rights and has served as Co-Executive Director since 2020. Before becoming Co-Executive Director, she served as Associate Director and Education Campaigns Director, supporting our education work with the Dignity in Schools Campaign and overseeing organizational development, operations, and management. With the Dignity in Schools Campaign, she supported youth, families, organizers and advocates to promote policy change in public education to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. She carried out research projects to document human rights violations in U.S. public schools, and provided trainings to community-based organizations on participatory research, campaign development and integrating a human rights approach into organizing. She previously worked as a consultant with Human Rights Education Associates and as Project Coordinator at the Center for Economic and Social Rights. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 

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