Freelance Producer since Season 12

Liz is an Emmy award-winning producer and writer with 20 years of experience transforming science stories into engagement and action. She has produced documentaries for South Florida PBS since 2019, and she co-produced the feature documentary YOUTH v GOV (2020), streaming on NETFLIX.

Liz has sailed aboard research vessels in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mediterranean Sea. She has explored 2,000-year-old Greek and Roman shipwrecks, searched for Amelia Earhart’s lost Electra, and assisted with search and recovery operations off the coast of Syria as part of Dr. Robert Ballard’s EV Nautilus team. She also served as the Director & COO of Conservation Media Group, where she designed the Catalyst Workshops to train and connect filmmakers and non-profits working on pressing ocean issues.

Liz holds an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University and a BA in Astronomy from Whitman College and began her filmmaking career producing films about astrophysics at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She’s been certified as an Advanced and Rescue scuba diver, a single-engine private pilot, and an NOLS WMI Wilderness EMT.