Liz believes that working for change is an essential part of her life. She lived in Sarawak for two years, teaching English to Malaysian teenagers. She saw first hand the impact of discrimination based on race, religion, gender etc. and those learnings are still part of her important learnings. She was married to a man for several years, and left as she came out in her early thirties. She was astonished when a friend told her to be careful who she told about her sexuality as they might think her ' perverted' 

She came to Alberta in 1983 and soon was active in the lesbian and gay community. And soon was doing social justice work as an ' out to the media' lesbian. 

Liz helped form Gala, the END Club, the Liasion committee with the Edmonton Police Service. She was on the founding board of the AIDS network. She was involved with Womenspace and helped organize the first of many new Years Eve Formal dances. The first was at a not very posh place in the far west end of Edmonton. A couple of hundred women and men attended and had a great time. One year it was at the Westin Hotel.

She firmly believes we should be out and honest about ourselves. Once out, she has said that everything is the same and everything is different.

And as her friend Jane Rule said "politics is like housework, just when you think It’s done, it needs doing again.”

Liz is a senior and still working in her psychology practice. And pushing equality every chance she gets, including the EPSG. She also believes that if change is to happen, we must be firm, respectful and not prepared to back down to opponents. Lots of humour is crucial, as are those fun pot luck suppers that were so frequent before COVID.

Keep on keeping on.