Liz Gary, a life-long New Yorker, came to Green Corps to learn how to bring environmental values to urban communities.  Growing up in Brooklyn and attending Barnard College at Columbia University, Liz became frustrated by how environmental issues are often ignored in large cities like New York.  After graduating with a degree in American Studies, she applied to Green Corps, hoping to learn the skills to make our cities more sustainable.

During college, Liz was the captain of the Columbia University Water Polo Team, a role that honed her leadership and skills.  As an intern, with the New York Citizens Union, she crafted policy recommendations on campaign finance that ultimately reached the desk of Gov. Spitzer.  Liz was also active in electoral politics. She wrote candidate evaluations for a 2006 Voters Directory, which was distributed to 40,000 voters across the state.

After introductory classroom training with Green Corps in Boston, Liz joined the Think Outside the Bottle Campaign with Corporate Accountability International in Boston, where she is educating people about the abuses of the bottled water industry and advocating for public water systems.