Co-founder & CEOEYElliance
Liz is Co-founder & CEO of EYElliance. Prior to founding EYElliance in 2015, she spent 15 years working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and access to global markets. Her personal interest in facilitating low-and middle-income countries’ full participation in global markets stems from her time working alongside young entrepreneurs in East Africa. In 2011 Liz joined VisionSpring, a social enterprise focused on improving access to affordable eyeglasses, as its Director of Business Development. In 2008 Liz organized a regional conference supported by the Ford Foundation to help build the capacity of the East African music industry. This led to a six-year consulting role with the UNDP forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda. Liz founded a record label in 1995, graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, is a member of the Explorers Club, and a two-time National Geographic Society grant recipie
Early Childhood to Primary EducationEconomic OpportunityEducationHealthHealth DeliveryLivelihoodsSustainable Markets
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa