Elizabeth Futrell joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs in 2011 as a Technical Writer for K4Health. She cultivated her passion for expanding access to quality family planning and reproductive health information and services working at FHI 360. She worked in Research Utilization at FHI while earning a Master of Science in Public Health and a Certificate in Global Health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Prior to this, Liz taught English in Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer, in Japan as a private language instructor, and in the U.S. as a high school teacher. She sits on the Advisory Board for Heshima Kenya, a non-profit organization devoted to identifying, protecting, and empowering unaccompanied refugee children and youth living in Nairobi, Kenya. She also serves as editor and is a regular contributing writer for I Ate the Spider, a Chicago-based literary publication.