Elizabeth is the founder and co-Executive Director of LA Más, a non-profit that designs and builds initiatives that promote neighborhood resilience and elevate the agency of working-class communities of color. The practice ranges from alternative affordable housing, public realm improvements, and storefront improvements. Elizabeth is an architect committed to social justice using design as a tool to engage and as a value that imparts identity and creates ownership. She is currently an adjunct teacher at Cal Poly Pomona’s School of Architecture and holds a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Southern California.