Elizabeth brings a decade of experience in operations and partnerships at high-growth start ups and Fortune 500 to her role as Team Relations Manager for XPRIZE Water Scarcity, where she supports teams, partners, and the broader prize community as they embark on a multi-year journey towards widespread access to clean water through the creation of reliable, sustainable, and affordable seawater desalination systems.

Elizabeth has spent her career at the intersection of the public and private sector and is passionate about leveraging the power of technology to drive positive and lasting social impact. Before joining XPRIZE, Elizabeth led customer operations at Remora, a mobile carbon capture company for semi-trucks named one of Y Combinator’s Top Companies in 2023. Prior to that, Elizabeth was global public sector program manager at Amazon Web Services, where she managed a GTM program for tens of thousands of partner organizations and was an Amazon Employee for Climate Justice. Elizabeth also spent four years in the Seattle start up scene, where she had the opportunity to work on a variety of innovative technology products, one of which was sold to Sports Illustrated, and another of which grew to become a publicly traded company. In her early career, Elizabeth founded the Save the Children Seattle Council after a transformative trip to visit global health programs in Malawi.  

Elizabeth holds a BA in liberal arts from Smith College and a product manager certification from General Assembly Seattle, where she won ‘best pitch’ in the 2015 competition. In her free time, Elizabeth loves to read, travel, volunteer, snowboard, ride motorcycles, and climb mountains.