A designer, urbanist, and spatial justice activist, Liz is an expert on engaging and transforming unjust urban environments. Her multidisciplinary design and innovation practice, Studio O, operates at the intersection of racial and spatial justice. She collaborates with/in communities in need to leverage design to catalyze sustained social impact.
From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the U.S. to a water and health social enterprise for low-income Kenyans to developing a Social Impact Protocol for housing with university researchers and LISC. Liz has a long history of working on and advocating for issues of spacial and racial justice. Her work blends community-centered research methodologies, dynamic and creative forms of engagement and prototyping, spatially just architecture and planning principles, and tools to build participatory power and community-centered systems. Her clients have included the Oakland Museum of California, Jacaranda Health, Piedmont Housing Alliance, and Pacific Gas & Electric. And her network of collaborators have been equally dynamic including the likes of HealthxDesign, envelope a+d, Ideas + Action, and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise (Cornell).