Liz holds a PhD in Humanities & Culture from Union Institute & University (certificates in Women's and Gender Studies/Creative Writing), MA in English from the City University of NY (College of Staten Island), BA in Theatre/Speech from Wagner College. Liz is the writing and performance mentor for Act Risk No More and is also a member of Actor's Equity and SAG-AFTRA. She is interested in performance based narrative writing for healing and social change from a feminist perspective within the areas of adoption culture and reproductive justice as a way of disrupting dominant narratives and shifting paradigms for adoptees and birth mothers. Her writing has been published on DearAdoption.com and in #MeToo: Essays About Why This Happened, What it Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens Again. She is a team facilitator of Adoptees Connect in Salt Lake City and is currently researching the benefits of creative writing to heal adoptee trauma.