For 37 years Liz has worked with communities, parks, and conservation organizations across America. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 with a master of regional planning degree, she joined the firm of Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd (now WRT). Over the years she has focused on four areas of professional practice: National Park Service planning, land conservation and open space planning, community comprehensive planning, and NEPA compliance for major public works projects. Since 2002 Liz has worked almost exclusively with the National Park Service (NPS) on planning assignments for parks and other sites of national significance. She has provided project management services for general management plans for units of the national park system, comprehensive management plans for national historic trails and heritage areas, and a wide variety of implementation projects such as development concept plans, alternative transportation system plans, special projects in gateway communities, and wayfinding and interpretive media. The assignments have addressed a broad range of management issues and challenges faced by the NPS in a wide variety of settings – ranging from wilderness areas to urban neighborhoods in New York City. To these challenges Liz has brought her preceding experience in land conservation, community planning, and NEPA compliance. Prior to working with the NPS, Liz spent many years focused on land conservation and open space protection. Working with some of the nation’s larger land conservation organizations she assisted with developing and implementing standards and practices for conservation programs. She worked with numerous conservation-minded landowners to convey easements on properties with significant conservation values, including assistance with all aspects of the easement conveyance process such as drafting easement documents, working with appraisers, completing baseline documentation reports, and developing easement monitoring protocols. Currently she is the president of the local land trust in the community where she lives. Liz has also managed many other park and open space projects completed by WRT for cities, counties, and state agencies, including systemwide park and recreation plans, green infrastructure plans, greenway plans, and site specific park master plans. Comprehensive planning for cities, counties, and towns has been another of Liz’s professional practice areas. Over the years she has provided technical support for many of WRT’s large planning assignments, such as development of the master plan for the new Nigerian capital of Abuja, the 1992 comprehensive plan for the Florida Keys which significantly reduced the potential for development in those islands over the past two decades, and the General Plan for San Diego County completed in the late 90s. She has also led planning assignments for several comprehensive plans, such as for Orlando (FL), the village of East Hampton (NY), and Charleston County (SC). Liz’s experience with NEPA compliance began in 1976 when she joined WRT. In 1973 WRT was awarded one of the earliest NEPA compliance assignments for a major public works project in America. From 1973 through 1995 WRT was the general environmental consultant for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) for construction of the initial 101-mile regional metrorail system in Washington, DC. For fifteen of those years Liz was the project manager for the project, coordinating all aspects of NEPA compliance including public involvement activities, alternatives analyses, impact assessment, document preparation, and interagency coordination regarding mitigation of impacts to wetlands, rare and endangered species (section 7 coordination), historic properties (section 106 compliance), parklands (section 4f compliance), and other resources. Liz has used the knowledge gained through this experience early in her career on many ensuing projects.