Liz recently graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Civic Studies. She has spent her time at Tufts focusing her studies on the intersection between global accountability and grassroots civic action as a potential solution to social injustice.
Since her first year at Tufts, The Tufts Daily provided her not only with a strong community but also a means of preserving the truth and mobilizing change on campus. She served as Associate Editor, Executive Opinion Editor, and a member of the Editorial Board. In her last year at Tufts, she wrote for the Investigative and News sections of the Daily, and was on the Journalism Education and Diversity Report Committees. She was also a member of Amnesty International at Tufts, where she learned about practical ways to prevent human rights abuses and deliver justice. Additionally, as part of the Tufts Experimental College’s Explorations program, she taught a first-year course on the covert history of CIA involvement in Latin America.
She followed her interest in transformative education to Education for Employment (EFE), where she aided in assembling a global network of prominent influencers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to fund and promote EFE’s Fall 2020 Women’s Empowerment campaign across the MENA region. In the spring of 2020, she volunteered with the World Peace Foundation to track the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, jails, and ICE detention centers. With the Oslo Scholars program at the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership, she interned for Jamila Raqib and the Albert Einstein Institution this summer. There, she tracked nonviolent action in the news, researched the role of digital technologies and social media in nonviolent resistance, and aided in developing the AEI 2.0 platform. In October 2021, she attended the Oslo Freedom Forum in Miami.
After college, she hopes to pursue a career in human rights law and conflict resolution. She joined The Trebuchet to follow my belief in education and community to be the keys to dismantling systems of oppression and division.