Elizabeth Vivirto
Experience: Elizabeth Vivirito (she/her) is a writer and strategic nonprofit leader, providing strategic guidance around strategy, fundraising, communications, and narrative change.
With expertise in marketing, communications, content, and events management, she brings her passion for social change and financial security to her work. Elizabeth has built and deployed communications strategies and projects for the Aspen Institute, Beneficial State Bank, Community Housing Capital, FinRegLab, and the Financial Health Network. She has been the content and speaker management engine behind the EMERGE Financial Health Conference, FinRegLab’s AI Symposium, and countless Aspen Institute events.
Her portfolio includes shaping and elevating the concept of financial health as an outcomes based goal for the field, and rebranding and expanding the EMERGE Conference into the unparalleled experience it is today. She advised and supported the US Financial Diaries project from its earliest stages through its book launch. She played a key role in communications for the COVID 19 Evictions Projections, cultivating media engagement that resulted in hundreds of media pickups, millions of impressions, and the CDC citing the work in its 2020 moratorium. In 2022, she contributed to the Aspen Institute led call for a Presidential Commission to create a national financial inclusion strategy, a call supported by several senators and more than one hundred companies. She has helped organizations secure millions of dollars in grant funding.
Education: BA, Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in International Communications, UC Berkeley; Masters in Public Policy, University of Chicago
Skills: Strategic nonprofit leader and writer specializing in communications, fundraising, narrative change, marketing, and convenings, with deep expertise in financial health, policy influence, media strategy, and field building.
Equilibrium is: Building the balanced life my community deserves. #BooksandBread, school board member, softball and baseball coach, and present daughter, mother, friend, and mentor.
Connect with me: elizabeth@eqcollab.org