Before TPH, Liz worked as an Assistant Learning Specialist in the Lindahl Academic Center at the University of Minnesota supporting academic skill building for student-athletes. She also served as a Lead Instructor and Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa for over six years. She taught courses in cultural anthropology, linguistics, international studies, and archaeology.

Liz has a bachelor’s degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology with a minor in Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis. She has an MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Iowa.