Elizabeth Sall

Biography

Elizabeth Sall serves on the board of the Sall Family Foundation where she is engaged in a global portfolio of partnerships that includes food production, climate justice, and community-driven development. She is particularly interested in the relationship between top-down system architecting at the planet/country level and bottom-up priorities and empowerment at the family/community level. As meta-issues, Elizabeth has been interested in reducing the friction to access capital and in-kind support for social entrepreneurs who may have difficulty establishing a 501c3 as well as closing the chasm between academia and practice. Elizabeth serves on the board of Rocky Mountain Institute, on the WWF-US National Council and participates in a variety of advisory boards including Planet Texas 2050.

In her professional sphere, Elizabeth runs the mission-driven UrbanLabs LLC, an urban science research firm where she conducts applied research to support public policy development, provides technical expertise and management services to public agencies, and generally geeks out about bikes, data, and transit. Elizabeth volunteers with various professional causes including running the workforce development program for the Zephyr Foundation for Improved Travel Analysis as well as various committees, advisory boards and responsibilities with the National Academies of Sciences Transportation Research Board.

Elizabeth lives in Seattle with her wife and young son where she enjoys biking along the water and exploring the mountains on foot or on skis. She has a BS in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and an MS from the University of Texas.