Community Planning Director

  Liza is a community planner and strategist driven to work alongside others to create racially and socially equitable and sustainable human systems – spaces, where all people find support, security, and opportunities to thrive. She has worked as an events planner  for active transportation-focused non-profit, Downtown On the Go in Tacoma, WA, as a research assistant to Urban Studies faculty at the University of Washington-Tacoma, as an editor for the University of Washington’s Livable City  Year Program, and as a planning consultant. Liza is skilled at facilitating group sessions, managing project teams, forming collaborative partnerships, creating organizational systems, collating data, and  disseminating information to broad stakeholder audiences. In all her work, Liza recognizes the importance of centering equity, diversity, and inclusion in planning processes that have historically neglected and excluded BIPOC communities.