LIZ SCHWARTZ

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Director of Communications and Strategy, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

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Liz Schwartz oversees the Shorenstein Center’s external communications, student-facing and public events, and fellows program. She works with research teams and faculty to promote new publications and initiatives, advises the center’s student programming, and leads the center’s high-profile prize programs, including the annual Goldsmith Awards. 

Liz has worked in digital and nonprofit strategy and communications for over 15 years. Before joining the Shorenstein Center in 2018, she was the head of communications at Health Equity International, a global health organization that supports the only major hospital in southern Haiti, and previously worked as a digital strategy consultant at Echo & Co., where she consulted with local, national, and international NGOs and advocacy organizations. 

Liz lives in the Boston area with her husband, young son, and two rambunctious cats. In her spare time, she enjoys riding horses and traveling. 

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The Henry Awards for Public Interest Documentary are a program of the Shorenstein Center’s Documentary in the Public Interest program—part of the Harvard Kennedy School research center, which is dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics, and public policy in theory and practice.