Elizabeth is a Program Officer with the Criminal Justice Grantmaking team at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, supporting its work focused on ending mass incarceration, increasing opportunities for those impacted by the criminal legal system and promoting the health and safety of all communities. 

Throughout her career, Elizabeth has worked with diverse groups of stakeholders to improve opportunities and outcomes for Black and brown communities. Before joining Schusterman, she led the National Education Association’s outreach efforts to Black-led organizations and provided funding and other capacity-building supports to partners to advance racial justice in education, including efforts to end the criminalization of students of color. Prior to this, Elizabeth developed and implemented the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s education advocacy strategy focused on ending the school-to-prison pipeline. This included building the capacity of grassroots advocates to leverage federal law to advance school discipline reform at the state and local levels. Elizabeth has also advocated for equitable educational opportunity for English Language Learners and promoted policies to improve access to high-quality, school-community partnerships for students of color. She was also a middle school English teacher in Brooklyn, NY. 

Elizabeth holds a Master of Public Administration from New York University, a Master of Science in Teaching from PACE University, and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University.